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  • No stopping climate action regardless of US policy, says Moody's

    16 February 2017

    Global efforts to reduce carbon emissions will not be affected by a less ambitious US climate policy under Trump, according to Moody's.

  • Best performing funds of 2016: Impax Environmental Markets (Ireland) Fund

    30 January 2017

    An uptick in investors' interest in environmental-themed equities, following the Paris Agreement, helped make 2016 a 'vintage' year for the Impax Environmental Markets (Ireland) Fund, reports Hamza Ali

  • EF Briefs: Impax, SUSI, Lombard Odier, Northern Trust

    20 January 2017

    Impax Asset Management's listed equity portfolios, both in its "Leaders" and "Specialist" strategies, have produced positive net carbon footprints in 2016.

  • Impax reaches record £5bn AUM

    10 January 2017

    Environmentally-themed investment manager Impax Asset Management saw its assets under management (AUM) rise to £5.06 billion ($6.16 billion) after a record quarter of inflows.

  • Mirova mulls US expansion for green bond fund

    02 January 2017

    French socially responsible investor (SRI) Mirova is mulling the possible launch of a US dollar green bond fund targeted at US investors, according to sources familiar to the matter.

  • Trump will not scupper the growth in environmental finance, says buoyant Impax

    01 December 2016

    The election of Donald Trump is unlikely to derail the growth in environmentally-themed investments, Impax Asset Management said today as it reported a record year of growth, led by the US.

  • Impax reaches first close on third renewables PE fund

    01 December 2016

    Impax Asset Management has reached a €149 million ($158 million) first close on its third European renewables-focused private equity fund.

  • People Moves - Kommuninvest, PRI, GIB, Bluesource, South Pole, Impax

    18 November 2016

    Swedish public sector lender Kommuninvest has appointed senior investor relations manager Bjorn Bergstrand as its head of sustainability.

  • Paris Agreement comes into force

    04 November 2016

    Investors and businesses had a renewed impetus to embrace the emerging low-carbon economy today, as the Paris Agreement to limit global warming at 2°C officially came into force.

  • EF BRIEFS: Impax; CBL Markets; Urban development

    19 October 2016

    Impax Asset Management has completed the sale of a 107.7MW portfolio of wind farms in Finland to German insurer Allianz. The sale price was not disclosed.