Analysis

  • Comment: Coronavirus and climate change

    19 March 2020

    Covid-19 could cause emissions to fall this year, but it may hinder a crucial COP, says Peter Cripps

  • Strong performance for green, social and sustainability bond funds in 2019

    16 March 2020

    After a torrid 2018 green, social and sustainability bond funds experienced a stronger performance in 2019, off the back of a rallying fixed income market. But performances were highly variable, reports Ahren Lester.

  • Explaining the concept of dynamic materiality

    13 March 2020

    What is material today may not be tomorrow, and what is not material today may be tomorrow, argue Thomas Kuh, and Andre Shepley

  • The Nuveen approach to impact

    11 March 2020

    Rekha Unnithan says Nuveen's years of experience differentiate it from the new kids on the block billion-dollar impact funds, reports Michael Hurley

  • ESG Data Files, part eight: Infrastructure, continued

    10 March 2020

    As well as considering the ESG credentials of an infrastructure project, investors should also consider resilience. Christopher Marchant reports

  • Boom time for green bond funds

    04 March 2020

    Green bond funds reported sizeable assets growth in 2019, Ahren Lester explains, as the green bond market benefitted from rising market credibility and the arrival of ubiquitous corporate names.

  • ESG Data Files, part eight: Infrastructure

    03 March 2020

    With its broad scope from airports to hospitals, wind farms to oil pipelines, assessing ESG data in the infrastructure sphere comes with a wide array of challenges. Christopher Marchant spoke to experts in the sector about the ongoing push for in standardisation and disclosure.

  • Powering up the energy storage market

    28 February 2020

    Interest in the energy storage market is starting to take off, Ahren Lester explains, despite caution over changing business models continuing to hold back widespread investment.

  • Green bonds: Assessing the external reviewers

    26 February 2020

    Sustainalytics continued to dominate the market for external reviewers in 2019, writes Christopher Marchant

  • Best performing funds of 2019: BNP Paribas Aqua

    26 February 2020

    Growing pressure to regulate so-called 'forever chemicals' helped boost the performance of water testing companies in BNP Paribas' Aqua fund, Justin Winter tells Michael Hurley

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