Market insight

• Investing in the future

  Climate Asset Management's impact manager Leo Murphy explains how it incorporates natural capital into all its investment decisions and his hopes for COP16

  

• Bridging the gap

  Ashley Camhi, director of innovative finance, forests and climate change at the Wildlife Conservation Society and leads the engagement with the private sector on HIFOR. Camhi explains HIFOR's work in providing an investment solution that bridges the gap between nature and climate.

  

• Making sustainable infrastructure a unique asset class is key to the net zero transition

  Here's how it's happening

  

• Why transition financing needs more transparency

  S&P Global Ratings provides independent, transparent opinions on the robustness of a company's climate transition plan, grounded in its award-winning Shades of Green approach

  

• Celebrating five years of green growth: the Green Economy Mark

  As the London Stock Exchange's Green Economy Mark enters its fifth year, Claire Dorrian, head of sustainable finance for LSEG Markets, explains how the cohort has evolved over the years.

  

• Mobilising private markets in the climate transition

  The scale of the climate challenge means that every part of the capital markets will have a vital role to play. Michael Ridley, Abdulla Zaid and Jakub Malich of MSCI discuss how private market investors are thinking about net zero.

  

• Instrument level granularity for ESG investments

  S&P Global Market Intelligence's new Sustainability Pricing & Reference Data product seeks to provide investors and is available for global Government, Supranational, Agency, and Corporate (GSAC) bonds and with key information to facilitate investment and monitoring, including instrument screening, portfolio construction, compliance and reporting.

  

• Quality is key to growth in sustainability-linked loans

  Sustainability-linked loan (SLL) volumes have weakened since a surge in 2022. Moody's Ratings analysts Adriana Cruz Felix, Matthew Kuchtyak, and Jeffrey Sukjoon Lee explain why, sharing insights from Moody's Second Party Opinion portfolio and highlighting the path for resumed growth.

  

• Unearthing ESG scores for leveraged finance

  As investors widen the net of how ESG screening should be applied to different elements of their portfolio management criteria, Richard Jefferies and Marina Petroleka of Sustainable Fitch tell Environmental Finance why the firm has turned an ESG lens to the leveraged finance broadly syndicated loan market and what can be learned from their analysis.

  

• Putting fund finance on a sustainable footing

  Europe's private equity fund finance market is embracing sustainable finance techniques developed for labelled debt. SMBC Group's Natalya Tueva, Eleni Askianaki and Indira Masullo explain