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  • EQT buys EV charging firm from Zouk

    22 February 2022

    EQT has bought UK electric vehicle (EV) charging company Instavolt from fellow private equity investor Zouk Capital, for an undisclosed sum.

  • CBRE raises €175m for European housing fund

    22 February 2022

    CBRE Investment Management has raised a further €175 million ($200 million) for its CBRE European Residential Impact Fund (ERIF), bringing the total fund size to €640 million since it launched in August 2021.

  • Brunel appoints Jupiter, Mirova to £2.5bn sustainable equity fund

    22 February 2022

    Brunel Pension Partnership has appointed Jupiter Asset Management and Mirova US as additional managers of its rapidly growing £2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) sustainable listed global equities fund.

  • ETF to track ESG version of Hang Seng Index

    22 February 2022

    Hang Seng Investment Management is to launch an exchange-traded fund to track an ESG version of Hang Seng Index.

  • Irish sovereign wealth fund invests in Solas energy efficiency fund

    22 February 2022

    Ireland's sovereign wealth fund was a cornerstone investor in a €140 million ($160 million) funding round for a Solas Capital energy efficiency fund.

  • RobecoSAM Smart Energy - the brightest again

    22 February 2022

    After a tumultuous year for renewables stocks, the drive for semiconductors is here to stay, Roman Boner tells Madeleine Jenkins

  • ECB's Elderson: We aren't calling for fossil fuel divestment

    22 February 2022

    Banks should not view the European Central Bank (ECB)'s calls for improved management of climate risk as an entreaty to make a blanket divestment from the most heavily polluting assets, a top executive at the central bank said.

  • Actis inks $1.2bn 'cutting edge' impact-linked loan

    21 February 2022

    Sustainable infrastructure investor Actis has secured a $1.2 billion "impact-linked loan", which is a hybrid between 'use of proceeds' and a 'sustainability-linked' instrument.

  • US banks tell Basel they 'strongly oppose' climate stress test

    21 February 2022

    A group of financial institutions chaired by Goldman Sachs has spoken out against any climate stress testing that could lead to regulatory changes in a letter to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

  • ASEAN sustainable fund standards will need tightening, says HSBC

    21 February 2022

    A proposal for an ASEAN sustainable fund standard is a "good start" but will need to be tightened to align it with other international standards...