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BlueBay expands ESG fixed-income investment activities
10 February 2017Fixed-income investment manager BlueBay Asset Management has created a high-yield bond investment strategy which applies additional environmental, social and governance (ESG) exclusions.
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Investors target climate at AGM season
08 February 2017Investors with assets of approximately £17 billion ($21.1 billion) have called on shareholders to back resolutions requiring climate disclosure and forcing companies to deal with the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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MSCI launches ESG indexes targeting 'world's largest asset owners'
08 February 2017US-based index provider MSCI has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) index series targeted at universal investors with diversified portfolios.
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Cambridge pushes to become largest university to divest from fossil fuels
07 February 2017Cambridge University's governing body, Regent House, has passed a motion to divest its £5.8 billion ($7.2 billion) endowment fund from fossil fuels. If successful Cambridge would be the largest in the world to do so.
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KfW identifies energy efficiency as a major financing theme
01 February 2017German development bank KfW financed some €20.7 billion ($22.3 billion) of energy efficiency projects last year, out of total commitments of €81 billion.
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Financiers praise 'Positive Impact' Principles
30 January 2017The Principles for Positive Impact Finance were hailed as "an important step in ... overcoming the funding gap for sustainable development" at their launch today in Paris.
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Oekom launches ESG impact assessment service
30 January 2017Oekom Research, a German sustainability ratings agency, has expanded its range of services to help investors better understand the environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact of their investment decisions.
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Rising tide of ESG regulation highlighted in new report
26 January 2017There is rising tide of environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulations globally, according to a new report by Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). However, more needs to be done to improve weak implementation of these policies.
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Zurich invests €100m in local German sustainability bond
26 January 2017Zurich Insurance Group's German operation has invested €100 million ($107 million) in 'sustainability bonds' issued by the province of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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EF BRIEFS: Repower; Inspired Evolution; Burj Capital; Forest expansion
25 January 2017Swiss renewable energy company Repower has issued two green Schuldscheine, totalling €50 million, ($54 million) to refinance part of its project portfolio. They are said to be the first such instruments from a Swiss company.