Archive

  • EU green bond standard ‘likely to kill’ second party opinions

    07 August 2019

    The proposed EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS) “is likely to kill the second party opinion format as we know it”, according to French investment bank Natixis CIB.

  • Natural capital: investors face data black hole

    29 April 2019

    Investors interested in assessing their dependencies on natural capital are staring into a "great big hole" when it comes to data.

  • People Moves: Natixis, Wells Fargo Asset Management, Schroders, PIMCO, Truvalue Labs, MSCI, SASB, Boston Trust and Walden, ANZ and Swiss Association for Responsible Investment

    15 February 2019

    Harald Walkate has been appointed as Natixis Investment Managers' first head of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ESG.

  • Investors 'not getting the sustainability information they want', says WBCSD

    05 November 2018

    Many investors lack adequate information on the sustainability of the companies in which they invest, despite a plethora of data on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, according to a recent survey.

  • Private equity will struggle to implement TCFD, lawyer predicts

    19 October 2018

    Private equity firms will struggle to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) across their many portfolio companies, a lawyer has predicted.

  • Big four audit firms under spotlight on climate reporting

    19 September 2018

    The ‘big four’ audit firms have been challenged to explain their failure to flag deficiencies in companies’ climate risk reporting.

  • People Moves: SUSI Partners and HSBC

    17 August 2018

    Wymen Chan has been hired as managing director by SUSI Partners to lead its investment team in Singapore.

  • Carbon market sentiment strengthens

    23 May 2018

    Sentiment about carbon prices is becoming increasingly bullish, but "a huge gap remains between current price expectations and what's needed to achieve the 2°C goal" set by the Paris climate agreement.

  • People moves: SASB, FMO, SLM and IHS Towers

    27 April 2018

    Jean Rogers has stepped down from her role as chair of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).

  • SDGs are not a 'silver bullet' for investors, says Schroders

    12 March 2018

    Schroders has expressed its concern that the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are "misappropriated and misused", as "they were not designed for investors" in the first place.