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News Round Up: SFDR, Solactive, Aegon, Eurazeo, and more

Andy Briggs to chair ABI's new climate change committee

Private equity set to drive impact fundraising rebound

Private equity fund managers are leading a charge of impact investors looking to raise a combined €140 billion ($170 billion), data from Phenix Capital reveals - a sum that suggests coming months could see a dramatic rebound in impact allocations after Covid-19 dampened last year's total.

News Round Up: Amundi, NGFS, Manulife, PGIM, and more

Leeds and London to become 'global centres of green finance'

19 EU central banks adopt common sustainable investment principles

Impact funds outperform in 2020 but Covid dampens fundraises

Publicly-listed impact funds have, on average, outperformed their respective benchmarks in 2020, according to analysis by impact data provider Phenix Capital.

Bank of England urged to reduce climate change risk exposure by lawmakers

The Bank of England (BoE) has been urged by a group of Members of Parliament to align its £20 billion ($27 billion) asset purchase programme to the Paris Agreement and require large firms receiving help from the taxpayer during the Covid-19 pandemic to provide climate disclosures.

BIS launches second green bond fund for central banks

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has launched a euro-denominated green bond fund for central banks, joining its inaugural fund launched in 2019.

French central bank tightens fossil fuel exclusions for €22bn portfolio

The Banque de France (BdF) has tightened the fossil fuel company exclusions applied to its own investment portfolio worth €22 billion ($27 billion), but campaigners called on the bank to "apply the same level of ambition to the immediate decarbonization of the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policy".