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MetLife: We look for thoughtful issuers who understand their climate risks
15 April 2026Being exposed to high climate risk is not a deal-breaker for MetLife Investment Management (IM), provided issuers are "thoughtful" about understanding their climate risk and mitigation opportunities.
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Webinar: Sustainable finance market will continue to mature in 2026
21 January 2026While the anti-ESG backlash continued to make itself felt last year and support for sustainability initiatives fell, there are still many positives for the sustainable finance industry, an Environmental Finance webinar heard.
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Sustainable bond funds upbeat after positive year
18 March 2025The sustainable bond fund market recorded its second consecutive year of positive returns in 2024, with optimism high for another robust year for fixed income returns. Ahren Lester reports
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'Not credible' to run transition funds from third-party data, says MetLife IM
24 July 2024It is "not credible" for investment managers to run a transition investment strategy using third-party data vendors rather than using in-house research, according to MetLife Investment Management (MetLife IM).
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'Hard-to-abate' green bonds tell transition investors we are 'here for real'
29 April 2024Green bonds are valuable for hard-to-abate issuers to demonstrate what they are doing right now to secure a low-carbon future when 'zero carbon' technologies are still being developed, according to Alcoa and ING.
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'Dividing line' between transition and business strategies is fading fast
26 April 2024The convergence of climate transition and financial business strategies is becoming more prominent and is helping drive greater sophistication in transition planning by issuers, sustainable finance experts told an Environmental Finance event.
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Transition bond label is a 'distraction' for transition finance, says MetLife IM
22 April 2024A dedicated 'transition bond' label for corporate issuers "distracts" from the forward-looking, long-term focus that transition finance requires, according to MetLife Investment Management (MetLIfe IM).
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Transition and good returns 'aligning more' in bond markets
17 April 2024The link between issuers with good transition strategies and good returns in the bond market is increasingly becoming clearer, two transition bond fund managers told an Environmental Finance event.
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Sustainable bond fund assets hit $41bn record
01 March 2024Investor 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
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Webinar: Government support needed to fund transition technologies
01 November 2023Further support from governments, through policies and subsidies, is needed to help accelerate funding of technologies critical to the net zero carbon transition, a recent Environmental Finance webinar heard.