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Soil: the missed opportunity under investors' feet
27 March 2019The health of soil has been overlooked by the financial sector but is material to returns, argues Andrew Voysey.
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Green bonds round-up: IBRD, Folksam Group, Electrolux, Interstate Power & Light, Pace Funding Group, EBRD
27 March 2019The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), part of the World Bank Group, has tapped the €600 million ($675 million) green bond it issued in November to raise a further €250 million.
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Australia launches HLEG-style sustainable finance initiative
27 March 2019A group of leaders and senior executives at Australia’s major banks, superannuation funds and insurance companies has been assembled to devise a sustainable finance ‘roadmap’.
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Dutch pension fund allocates €5.8bn to SDG index
27 March 2019A Netherlands-based pension fund has allocated €5.8 billion ($6.5 billion) – more than a quarter of its entire portfolio – to a newly-created ‘sustainable’ benchmark index.
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Natixis poaches Pictet water fund managers to create thematics arm
26 March 2019Natixis Investment Managers has made two hires from rival Pictet to co-manage a newly-created water fund.
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€100m African 'new tech' impact fund launched
26 March 2019An impact fund with a target size of €100 million ($113 million), which will invest in companies using new technologies such as blockchain, has been launched at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, Rwanda.
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Poor ESG data hinders investment decisions, says SSgA
26 March 2019The opaqueness of data around environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is acting as an impediment to institutional investors, such as insurers, who want to commit more to their programmes, according to State Street Global Advisors' (SSgA) head of ESG Rakhi Kuma.
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Dai-Ichi Life makes JPY1bn impact investment
26 March 2019Japanese insurer Dai-Ichi Life Insurance has invested JPY1billion ($90 million) in an energy venture fund as part of its environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment programme.
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EU carbon market update, 25 March 2019
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EIB provides €16bn in ‘climate action’ lending in 2018
25 March 2019The European Investment Bank (EIB) lent a combined €16.1 billion ($18.2 billion) – 29% of its overall lending – to ‘climate action’ projects in 2018.