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KKR acquires $530m stake in Indian waste company
13 August 2018Private equity giant KKR has signed a $530 million agreement to acquire a 60% stake in an Indian waste and recycling company from the founder and another existing investor.
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One-third of PRI signatories submit TCFD-themed reporting
13 August 2018About one third (30%) of Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) signatories have voluntarily reported according to a Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)-style framework.
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Climate change impacts asset value, UN study finds
13 August 2018Insurers increasingly ESG screen their investments, but even the value of their favoured asset is at risk
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Lightsource BP acquires 135MW in PJM solar assets
10 August 2018Lightsource BP, the British solar park developer, has acquired a 135MW portfolio from Orion Renewable Energy Group.
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People moves: AP3, ISS-Oekom, IETA
10 August 2018Mårten Lindeborg, AP3’s CIO and deputy CEO, has passed away. The Swedish buffer fund announced yesterday that Lindeborg died after a short illness
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$31.1bn of green bonds have aligned themselves with the SDGs
10 August 2018A total of $31.1bn of green bonds issued so far in 2018 have aligned themselves with at least one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which represents roughly a third of the value of issues.
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Pacific Fonder adds Green World strategy
10 August 2018Swedish active asset manager Pacific Fonder has created a new investment strategy called Green World for its Pacific Multi Asset fund.
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BlackRock launches ESG emerging market debt funds
10 August 2018With the products expected to spark interest amongst insurers
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UK pension fund forum urges greater climate action from 16 firms
10 August 2018The UK Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) issued several climate-related voting alerts to ramp up pressure on 16 oil and gas, mining and transport companies in the second quarter of this year.
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Report claiming fossil fuel divestment would cost pension funds billions branded 'misleading'
09 August 2018A report commissioned by the petroleum industry that claims US pension funds would stand to lose billions of dollars in returns if they fully divested fossil fuel stocks has been branded “particularly misleading”.
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