Archive

  • M&G launches climate-focused equity impact fund

    16 November 2020

    M&G Investments has launched an equity fund that targets positive climate impact alongside financial returns.

  • News Round Up: Mercer, Fitch, INVL, and more

    11 November 2020

  • Investors back Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing

    10 November 2020

    A Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing has been published with support from a group of UK-based investors including M&G, Insight and Legal & General.

  • ESG reporting key to ride 'wave' of social housing investment

    27 May 2020

    M&G and Insight Investment are among organisations that have drawn up draft criteria for social housing sustainability reporting, as they suggest "we are at the early stages of what may be a wave of equity investment in affordable housing".

  • A fifth of Barclays investors back fossil fuel financing phase out

    07 May 2020

    More than a fifth of investors in Barclays backed a shareholder resolution urging the FTSE 100-listed lender to outline a plan to phase out its financing for fossil fuel firms.

  • M&G and EOS support Barclays fossil fuel funding resolution

    01 May 2020

    M&G Investments and EOS have confirmed they will support a shareholder resolution calling on Barclays to phase out its funding for fossil fuel firms, but Norway's sovereign wealth fund will not be supporting it.

  • M&G launches ESG emerging markets bond fund

    25 July 2019

    M&G Investments has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG)-themed fund that will invest in emerging market corporate bonds.

  • People moves: Finance for Tomorrow, M&GPrudential, KEB Hana Bank, Union Investment Institutional

    31 May 2019

    Philippe Zaouati, CEO of French asset manager Mirova, part of Natixis Investment Managers, has stepped down as chair of Finance for Tomorrow.

  • UNEP FI and investors release study on climate risk reporting

    10 May 2019

    A major study has been issued looking at the different ways that investors can measure and report climate risks.

  • ANZ hails ‘new trend’ of using loan market for green finance

    08 May 2019

    The use of loans to finance decarbonisation, is a welcome “new trend”, ANZ’s head of sustainable finance told a conference in Melbourne.