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Generali launches the first green ILS framework

Italian insurer Generali has issued a framework for issuing "green" insurance-linked securities (ILS) that will allow it to invest in sustainable assets and underwriting.

Rockefeller Foundation sets $1bn low-wage investment goal

The Rockefeller Foundation is set to invest $65 million in a financing programme it says will mobilise $1 billion in private finance and help support about 10 million low-income workers in the US.

Best performing funds of 2019: BNP Paribas Aqua

Growing pressure to regulate so-called 'forever chemicals' helped boost the performance of water testing companies in BNP Paribas' Aqua fund, Justin Winter tells Michael Hurley

European re/insurers at forefront of fossil fuel withdrawal, Moody's reveals

Axa, Allianz, Swiss Re, Munich Re and Zurich have made greater progress than their global peers in reducing exposure to fossil fuels and thermal coal in particular, according to a Moody's Investors Service report.

EU carbon market update: 25 February 2020

'Tremendous' growth in investor interest in US offshore wind - S&P

US Global Compact Network seeks 'SDG pioneers'

The US arm of the UN Global Compact has launched a call for applications to its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Pioneers award.

JetBlue strikes aviation industry's first sustainability-linked loan

US airliner JetBlue has signed a $550 million, sustainability-linked revolving credit facility with BNP Paribas - believes to be the first loan of its kind in the aviation industry.

LGIM and PIC invest a combined €342m in Spanish solar parks

UK institutional investors Legal & General and Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) have committed a combined €342 million ($370 million) of debt to refinance 21 Spanish solar farms.

Best Performing Funds of 2019: RobecoSAM Smart Energy

After a tumultuous 2018 for the alternative energy sector, an emphatic rebound for RobecoSAM's Smart Energy fund suggests the future remains bright. Christopher Marchant reports.