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  • Manulife: Green bonds 'imperilled' by net zero target setting

    07 July 2023

    Canadian insurer and asset manager Manulife is concerned that the "blunt tool" of assessing alignment with net-zero targets for investment portfolio construction could "imperil" the future success of the green bond market.

  • Manulife pilots natural capital accounting framework

    29 June 2023

    Manulife Investment Management is piloting a method of measuring the value of nature for its timber and agriculture assets, in preparation for applying it to "the entire portfolio", an executive has said.

  • Market-wide stewardship driving sustainable outcomes

    03 May 2023

    Manulife Investment Management's Peter Mennie and Brian Kernohan have identified five ways in which the asset manager can exert its investment stewardship to help address systematic issues

  • Manulife: Biodiversity is biggest opportunity for private markets

    16 February 2023

    Biodiversity is "arguably the biggest opportunity for private markets", and will expand beyond timberland to other types of investments including in the technology sector, an executive at Manulife has said.

  • COP15: Manulife commits $100m to nature-based solutions

    19 December 2022

    Manulife has pledged $100 million towards nature-based solutions with a focus on producing forestry carbon offsets.

  • COP15: $24trn investor group calls for agreement on Global Biodiversity Framework

    13 December 2022

    150 financial institutions representing over $24 trillion in assets under management have called on countries to adopt a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15).

  • Investors launch nature-positive forest roadmap

    16 November 2022
  • People Moves 7 October: BNP Paribas, M&G, Mirova ... and more

    07 October 2022
  • Manulife launches climate action fund

    05 September 2022
  • Canadian engagement initiative identifies 40 target companies

    09 June 2022

    A list of 40 Canada-listed companies that will be targets of investor pressure on climate-related issues has been published by a burgeoning collaborative engagement initiative.