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JP Morgan launches high-yield corporate ESG bond index
05 March 2019JP Morgan has created an environmental, social and governance (ESG) tilted, high-yield corporate bond index.
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CPR unveils smart beta credit ESG fund
04 March 2019Paris-based CPR Asset Management has launched a ‘smart beta’ credit fund that excludes the worst-performing companies, based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria.
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BMO launches SDG engagement fund
04 March 2019BMO Global Asset Management has launched an equity fund that will actively engage with investee companies、 using the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework.
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Actiam launches passive sustainable real estate fund
04 March 2019Dutch asset manager Actiam has launched a passively-managed sustainable real estate fund targeting investments that contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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ISS ESG launches tools to tailor-make ESG indices
04 March 2019ISS ESG, the responsible investment-focused arm of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), has launched tools that allow investors to create their own customised environmental, social and governance (ESG) indexing strategies.
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ESG scores may never standardise, argues LGIM
01 March 2019“We may never reach a point where environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores across providers are standardised or uniform”, a Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) index specialist has argued.
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SEK6.5bn SDG fund makes final close
01 March 2019Swedish private equity firm Summa Equity has grown its SDG fund to SEK6.5 billion ($704 million) at final close, after it was launched three years ago.
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Norway's Government Pension Fund divests from agricultural companies to combat deforestation
28 February 2019Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund with $1 trillion of assets, has divested from four major agricultural companies to combat deforestation.
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Green bond standards are converging, says CBI
27 February 2019Green bond standards are beginning to converge, in a development that has the potential to help resolve the question of the market's 'additionality', according to the Climate Bonds Initiative's (CBI) Justine Leigh-Bell.
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EU agrees low-carbon benchmark categories
26 February 2019EU politicians have agreed on categories for proposed low-carbon benchmarks, marking an important milestone in the development of the bloc's Sustainable Finance Action Plan.