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Impax attracts £286m from UK wealth manager
01 August 2018Impax Asset Management has been selected by UK wealth manager St James's Place to manage its £286 million ($376 million) Sustainable and Responsible Equity fund.
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Carbon is 'most suitable metric for smart beta ESG'
01 August 2018Investors deemed carbon as the most suitable environmental, social, governance (ESG) metric for inclusion in a smart beta investment strategy, according to a study. Seventy-four percent of investors selected carbon as being suitable for inclusion into smart beta, followed by other ESG metrics like water (21%), waste (20%) and gender diversity (18%).
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UK seeks £400m EV fund manager with eye on lost EIB funding
31 July 2018The UK ‘will be prepared’ for the European Investment Bank (EIB) to pull funding for clean energy infrastructure projects, the country’s government has suggested.
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Rabobank and EIB expand 'impact loan' programme to €600m
31 July 2018Rabobank is to make an additional €250 million ($293 million) available to 'environment-conscious' companies in the Netherlands, in the form of 'impact loans' with preferential interest rates.
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Financial risks of deforestation driven by the soy boom
31 July 2018Investors should engage with companies to help mitigate the risks posed by deforestation, says Julie Nash
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Italian solar energy platform RTR sold for €1.3bn
30 July 2018UK-based private equity investment firm Terra Firma has agreed to sell Italy's leading independent solar energy company, RTR, to F2i.
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EU carbon update, 30 July 2018
30 July 2018Further gains in EUA prices are the most likely outcome this week, as auction volumes fall sharply, says Louis Redshaw.
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France plans further €5bn of green bonds for transport projects
30 July 2018The French government has further underlined its commitment to green bonds with the launch of a €5 billion ($5.9 billion) 'green Euro medium term note programme' to finance transport projects in the greater Paris region
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Japan's Sparx attracts ¥47bn for renewables fund
30 July 2018Japanese fund manager Sparx Asset Trust & Management, which oversees some ¥1,122 trillion ($10 billion), has announced the final close of its renewable energy brownfield fund, 'Sparx Renewable Energy Brown Fund No. 1'.
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Will TCFD boost demand for weather hedging?
30 July 2018Growing pressure on companies and investors to disclose the potential impact of climate-change could lead to more use of weather risk management contracts, some analysts believe. Graham Cooper reports