News

• ESG is not just for long-term investors, says Man Group

  25 October 2018

  Man Group, a hedge fund manager with $114 billion assets under management, says that the short-term nature of its investment approach will not hinder it from being a ‘responsible investor’.

• Green bonds round-up - 24 Oct - 17 new deals

  24 October 2018

  Royal Schiphol Group, the owner of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, has priced a green bond worth €500 million ($576 million), making it the first European airport to issue green-labelled notes.

• News summary, 24 October 2018

  24 October 2018

  Links to the announcements relevant to sustainable investing

• Vote now! Help select the winners in Environmental Finance's annual Market Rankings

  24 October 2018

  Voting for Environmental Finance's 19th annual Market Rankings is closing soon – there are just eight working days left to participate in the largest and most closely watched survey of the world's environmental markets.

• Ceres preparing water stress test working group

  24 October 2018

  A working group to develop guidance on conducting stress testing and scenario analysis of water risk in investment portfolios is to be established by US non-profit Ceres.

• Pension funds have failed to protect themselves against climate risks, says report

  23 October 2018

  Pension funds have largely failed to prepare themselves against climate risks, which exposes $9.8 trillion (£7.5 trillion) of their assets to economic shocks from global warming, a report said.

• Investors turning attention to deforestation risks, says Ceres

  23 October 2018

  Investors are increasingly engaging companies to better manage deforestation risks in their supply chains – an issue that has traditionally been overlooked, according to US-based non-profit Ceres.

• $2.3trn of Asian investors join Climate Action 100+

  23 October 2018

  Asian investors with a combined $2.3 trillion in assets have signed up to engagement initiative Climate Action 100+.

• BlackRock launches ETFs 'to take ESG mainstream'

  23 October 2018

  BlackRock has launched six 'sustainable exchange-traded funds' (ETFs), which it hopes will propel environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing further into the mainstream.

• EU carbon market update, 22 October 2018

  22 October 2018

  Last week’s break of the upward trendline for EU Allowance prices is a bearish signal but this may be offset by smaller auction volumes and lower temperatures, says Louis Redshaw.