Peter Cripps

Articles by Peter Cripps

  • Big in Japan?

    04 September 2017

    Support from the biggest pension fund in the world is helping ESG take off in Japan, write Peter Cripps and Joe Walsh

  • Zurich completes $2bn green bond mandate

    31 August 2017

    Zurich Insurance Company has fulfilled its pledge to buy $2 billion of green bonds - some three-and-a-half years after announcing the target.

  • NIB prices its biggest ever SEK green bond

    23 August 2017

    The Nordic Investment Bank has issued its largest green bond yet in Swedish krona, raising SEK2 billion ($250 million).

  • Biomass plant in £150m refinancing

    21 August 2017

    A UK biomass plant has completed a £150 million ($200 million) refinancing with a large, unnamed European institutional investor.

  • CalPERS warns Elliott about short-termism on NRG

    21 August 2017

    US pensions giant CalPERS has warned NRG Energy against short-termism as the independent power producer works with activist shareholder Elliott Advisors to implement its new transformation strategy.

  • Low-carbon fund doubles in size to £4bn

    18 August 2017

    HSBC's UK pension fund has doubled its allocations to the award-winning, low-carbon Future World Fund to nearly £4 billion ($5 billion), Environmental Finance has learned.

  • Hannon Armstrong prices $135m of convertibles

    18 August 2017

    Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI) has priced a $135 million offering of convertible senior notes.

  • NZ Super moves $10bn passive equities to low-carbon

    16 August 2017

    New Zealand Super Fund has shifted its NZ$14 billion ($10 billion) global passive equity portfolio into a low-carbon strategy.

  • Time for investors in Asia's meat and dairy industries to 'step up to the plate'

    14 August 2017

    Investors in Asia's meat, seafood and dairy industries "face a range of badly managed sustainability risks with significant potential to derail returns," a report has warned.

  • IFC's Hartwick joins AIIB

    14 August 2017

    Evelyn Hartwick is to move from the IFC's Treasury department to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).