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  • GSAM backs SLBs with step-downs

    17 June 2024

    A major sustainable bond investor has urged investors and asset owners to seriously consider sustainability-linked bonds (SLB) with a step-down coupon on achieving or outperforming targets, as it is a "better structure" for the performance-based instrument.

  • Issuers should 'use more Opex in green bonds,' says GSAM

    17 June 2024

    Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) said green bond issuers should look to use more operational expenditures (Opex) in their use-of-proceeds allocation to help grow the market.

  • Emerging market sustainable bond investment momentum building

    14 June 2024

    Investors and issuers are responding to the challenges EM sustainable bonds pose, and the tide is turning in their favour. Ahren Lester reports

  • Green bond funds swing back to black in 2023

    13 March 2024

    2023 saw the growing sustainable bond fund market make positive returns after a torrid two years, with forecasts of another strong year to come. Ahren Lester reports

  • Sustainable bond fund assets hit $41bn record

    01 March 2024

    Investor appetite for sustainable bond funds has sent the market to record highs in 2023, with expectations of more to come in 2024. Ahren Lester reports

  • Goldman Sachs launches €10m green bond ETF

    16 February 2024

    Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has launched its first dedicated green bond exchange traded-fund (ETF), adding the first passively managed product to its green bond fund range.

  • GSAM: 36% of European investors ready to invest in social bonds

    16 May 2023

    More investors are expected to switch some of their conventional bond allocation to social bonds, Bram Bos tells Ahren Lester

  • Euro sustainable bond funds assets set €17bn record in 2022

    02 March 2023

    Despite unprecedented bond market conditions, Euro sustainable bond funds continued to attract substantial fresh capital from eager investors. Ahren Lester reports

  • NN IP corporate green bond fund crosses €1bn milestone

    02 August 2022

    The corporate green bond fund of NN Investment Partners (NN IP) has crossed the €1 billion ($1 billion) assets milestone less than three years after launching, becoming the second green bond fund at the Dutch asset manager to achieve this landmark.

  • NN IP launches debut €20m social bond fund

    18 July 2022

    NN Investment Partners (NN IP) has launched its first dedicated social bond fund, after the significant increase in social bonds since 2020 means the market had "caught up" with green bonds.