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  • Water webinar: With risk recognition rising, it's time to rethink resilience and adaptation

    01 September 2020

    Water risk is beginning to receive greater attention, but it is time to press companies to disclose as well as consider the future opportunities. Ahren Lester reports.

  • Healthcare impact investing complements our day-to-day work, says MSD

    25 August 2020

    Impact investment by healthcare companies strengthens the impact their commercial operations deliver every day, MSD says, by helping them reach underserved populations. Ahren Lester reports.

  • Assessing Asian green bonds

    14 August 2020

    Reporting of environmental and social impact is 'patchy' among Asian green bonds, finds a report, which recommends eight priorities for the market. Ahren Lester reports

  • Healthcare impact investing webinar: Investment need accelerating but data dearth hampers storytelling

    13 August 2020

    American Century Investments explains how impact investing in healthcare can pay social and financial dividends, but that data shortfalls make the story harder to tell. Ahren Lester reports.

  • Circular economy webinar: Integration and data are key to development

    06 August 2020

    Accelerating investment in the circular economy requires banking innovation as well as increasingly holistic thinking and transparent data, the speakers at an Environmental Finance webinar said, with current progress leaving plenty of reasons to be upbeat. Ahren Lester reports.

  • It's time for ESSG

    27 July 2020

    Stewardship is an integral part of ESG, say Robert Furdak, Jason Mitchell and Steven Desmyter

  • EU recovery fund deal could boost green bond market: S&P

    24 July 2020

    A massive potential 'green' debt issuance to fund the EU coronavirus (Covid-19) recovery plan could help crowd-in further green private capital to the market, S&P Global Ratings tells Ahren Lester.

  • Integrating inequalities: a new challenge for institutional investors

    09 July 2020

    Investors must start to consider their role in tackling inequality, argues Jean-Jacques Barbéris

  • Energy efficiency outperforms amid 'enduring appeal'

    24 June 2020

    Resource efficiency-focused investments have outperformed since the start of 2020, WHEB Asset Management tells Ahren Lester, as customers and investors recognise their "enduring appeal" despite the economic shock caused by the coronavirus pandemic

  • How the sustainability agenda transforms the banking sector

    08 June 2020

    Cornelius Riese identifies three key challenges for the sector