News

• Aviva backs calls for IOSCO to raise climate standards

  17 September 2018

  Aviva Investors has added its voice to calls for the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) to do more to tackle climate risk when it meets this week.

• Mandatory US climate disclosure law proposed by leading Democrat

  17 September 2018

  Every publicly listed company in the US could be forced to make climate-related disclosures, under new legislation introduced by a senior Democratic Party senator.

• People Moves: Osmosis IM, La Française Forum Securities and Green Climate Fund

  14 September 2018

  London-based Osmosis Investment Management, a $1.5 billion sustainable asset management business, has appointed Mike Even to its board of directors.

• IIRC prepares 'global momentum' phase of integrated reporting

  14 September 2018

  The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) has heralded a series of ‘breakthrough moments’ for integrated reporting, as it prepares to enter its ‘global momentum’ phase next month.

• EIB and World Bank join forces to boost green bond market

  14 September 2018

  The European Investment Bank (EIB) and World Bank, issuers of the first green bonds in 2007 and 2008 respectively, plan to work together to help more companies, municipalities and other sub-national issuers bring such bonds to market.

• Only one in ten investors aware of TCFD, says HSBC

  13 September 2018

  Only 10% of institutional investors and even fewer corporates (8%) are aware of the pioneering recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), according to research commissioned by HSBC.

• CBA, Samsung and Bayer dropped from DJSI World index

  13 September 2018

  S&P Dow Jones Indices and RobecoSAM have excluded Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), Samsung Electronics and healthcare company Bayer from the widely-followed Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World).

• Fossil fuel divestment movement ‘backed by $6trn in assets’

  13 September 2018

  Investors with a combined $6.24 trillion in assets have publicly committed to divest from fossil fuels, according to a study by Arabella Advisors.

• Investor Agenda finds $32trn of backing

  13 September 2018

  Investors with a combined $32 trillion in assets have signed up to an initiative to step up action on climate change.

• Axa IM invests in Althelia Sustainable Ocean Fund

  13 September 2018

  AXA Investment Managers (Axa IM) has committed to invest in the Althelia Sustainable Ocean Fund, as the fund raised about $38 million at first close.