Thomas Cox

Asset manager biodiversity action 'lagging' behind other ESG themes

Biodiversity fund assets triple in 2022 to nearly $1bn

Assets in biodiversity funds passed $984 million at the end of 2022, with a flurry of strategy launches despite macroeconomic woes, Thomas Cox reports

Scotland launches natural capital blended finance programme

Scotland will invest £1.5 million ($1.8 million) in leveraging private investment in natural capital projects in the country.

Investors should demand an end to corporate 'biocrastination'

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UBP optimistic despite biodiversity fund halving in size

After a difficult year that saw its biodiversity-themed listed equities fund halve in size, demand for nature financing will grow due to policy changes and the effects of the COP15 agreement,...

MSCI to distribute NatureAlpha biodiversity data

HSBC: Biodiversity investing in its 'infancy'

Biodiversity-related investing is "in its infancy" with only a "limited" number of relevant investment products available to investors, an executive at HSBC Asset Management has said.

Swiss Life: Biodiversity impact opportunity thin on the ground

A Swiss Life co-manager of a listed equities impact fund has said the investment opportunity in companies having positive impact on biodiversity "remains thin".

Jefferies: SBTs for nature to 'coalesce around a small group' of metrics

Corporations are likely to use a small number of sector-specific metrics to measure their contribution to nature-related targets under the draft Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) methodology for land, Jefferies Research has predicted.