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Impact bonds to benefit from 'favourable' regulatory landscape in 2024, Insight Investment predicts

Impact bonds should benefit from a "more favourable" interest rate environment in 2024, as the market and regulatory landscape matures, predicted David McNeil, head of responsible investment research at Insight Investment.

Sustainable bond fund assets hit $41bn record

Investor appetite for sustainable bond funds has sent the market to record highs in 2023, with expectations of more to come in 2024. Ahren Lester reports

Nature-related sovereign issuances set to grow, Insight predicts

Innovative nature-related sovereign issuances are set to increase, especially in emerging markets, an executive at Insight Investment has predicted.

People Moves 12 August including Mark Carney, Impact Investing Institute

Insight has classification system for SLBs

Insight Investment classifies sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) as either dark green, light green or red, using its own criteria.

People Moves 17 December: IIGCC, ISSB, Moody's and more

Insight Investment hires ESG portfolio manager

Second UK green bond secures largest sovereign oversubscription

The UK has issued the sovereign green bond with the longest tenor after it raised £6 billion ($8.3 billion) from its second issue, with the transaction more than 12-times oversubscribed by investors.

Record impact bond issuance is asset owner opportunity, says Insight

Last year's record issuance of impact bonds is set to be repeated in 2021, presenting 'great opportunity' to incorporate positive impact objectives into asset owners' mandates, according to Insight Investment.

Green Bond Standard 'may lead to fewer issuances'

The introduction of the EU's Green Bond Standard may have the unintended effect of actually reducing the rate of corporate issuances, a panel discussion at Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income Europe 2020 conference heard.