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Green bond fund assets double in 2020

Total assets in green bond funds hit $20 billion at the end of 2020, with some funds tripling in size, Ahren Lester reports, and fund managers expect inflows to continue to power ahead in 2021

News round-up: Linedata, Peloton, Impax, UBS, and more

Linedata launches integrated ESG data solution for asset managers with Arabesque S-Ray

Peloton Capital Management and Stephen Smith acquire Glass Lewis

Impax awarded climate mitigation mandate from Cbus

UBS launches climate ETF with Solactive

Stance Capital announces ESG ETF

Green bonds in emerging markets: issuer Q&A

In response to a recent webinar on emerging market green bond issuance we have hand-picked a selection of audience questions for webinar speakers Dirk Dijksma, head of innovation investments at Symbiotics and Shushanik Hovsepyan, head of capital markets at Ameriabank

Forward-looking metrics need improved methodologies, says TCFD consultation

Results from a Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) consultation have underlined the challenges facing forward-looking metrics - yet most respondents believe they could yet be useful if their methodologies are improved.

News round-up: UNEP FI; National Grid; Santos