Analysis

• Do insurers care about the Sustainable Development Goals?

  14 July 2020

  The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are meant to be the "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". So why aren't insurers taking an active role in pursuing them? Paul Walsh reports

  

• 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

  

• Sustainability-linked loans webinar: Leveraged loans could be next frontier

  08 July 2020

  Institutional investors are ready to provide an exciting new source of growth for the sustainability-linked loan market, Michael Hurley writes

  

• China green bonds: the state and effectiveness of the market

  03 July 2020

  Despite the strong growth in the Chinese green bond market in recent years, analysis by the Climate Policy Initiative's Donovan Escalante and June Choi shows there is still plenty policymakers and investors can do to boost how effective the market becomes

  

• 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

  

• Allocate more to impact post-Covid-19, Canadian pension funds told

  19 June 2020

  Traditionally risk-averse Canadian pension funds are gradually investing more to create positive impact but still lag their European counterparts, Michael Hurley writes

  

• Many insurers still lack sustainable underwriting policies

  16 June 2020

  Re/insurers shared tips on setting up frameworks for incorporating environmental, social and governance risks in underwriting at a recent UNEP PSI webinar. Cintia Cheong reports

  

• Paint it brown

  15 June 2020

  After devising a taxonomy of green activities, the EU has been called on to create a 'brown' taxonomy. Would it be a help, or an unnecessary complication, asks Christopher Marchant

  

• Chinese green bond standard update a 'great signal' to market

  11 June 2020

  After years of misalignment with global green bond standards, the new proposals from Chinese watchdogs should clear the way for greater green bond issuance. Ahren Lester reports

  

• How the sustainability agenda transforms the banking sector

  08 June 2020

  Cornelius Riese identifies three key challenges for the sector