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Storebrand ditches palm oil companies
22 January 2014Norwegian financial services firm Storebrand has excluded 11 palm oil plantation owners from all portfolios to reduce its exposure to climate change risks.
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Stranded assets: the divestment debate
14 October 2013There are calls for investors to reduce their exposure to fossil fuel stocks amid fears that their valuations will slump if politicians make good on their climate promises. But is now the right time to divest? Two institutional investors with contrasting views spoke to Environmental Finance
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Coal assets to suffer most from fossil fuel 'divestment stigma'
08 October 2013Coal stocks are more vulnerable than oil and natural gas to the fossil fuel divestment movement, according to a new study which has called on investors to evaluate the "poorly understood and regularly mispriced" environmental risks in their portfolios.
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Storebrand to evaluate utility holdings for 'stranded assets'
29 August 2013Asset manager Storebrand will analyse the sustainability of its utility holdings next month, Environmental Finance can reveal, following an analysis of the energy sector earlier this year which led to 19 exclusions.
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EIB in its third green bond transaction of July
31 July 2013The European Investment Bank has raised SEK400 million ($61.4 million) in its third green bond transaction in July.
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Asset manager buys EIB's biggest SEK green bond of 2013
19 July 2013The European Investment Bank has issued its biggest Swedish kronor-denominated green bond of 2013, with a Scandinavian asset manager the single buyer.
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Global benchmark performs better without fossil fuel stocks, claims asset manager
11 July 2013Eliminating the fossil fuel stocks from a global benchmark index and replacing them with environmentally friendly alternatives would have had a positive effect on return over the past seven years, an asset manager has claimed.