News

• Macquarie adds to renewables portfolio with another acquisition

  05 June 2017

  Macquarie Capital has further boosted its presence in the renewable energy sector with the acquisition of RES Japan, for an undisclosed sum.

• Future World Fund to start expelling poor performers by March

  05 June 2017

  Companies that don't show positive engagement on climate-related issues will start to be expelled from Legal & General Investment Management's (LGIM) Future World Fund from March.

• UK's low-carbon economy 'could grow to 13% of GDP'

  05 June 2017

  The low-carbon economy could grow to account for as much as 13% of the UK's gross domestic product (GDP) in the next thirty years, up from 2% today, according to a letter from Aldersgate Group, representing some of the country's business leaders.

• Asset owners and investors call for more Mexican green bonds

  05 June 2017

  A group of 57 leading asset owners and fund managers in Mexico have called on the government to take action to develop the local green bond market.

• People Moves: PGGM, SASB, Hudson, RenewableUK

  02 June 2017

  Dutch pension fund and asset manager PGGM's CEO Else Bos has resigned and will leave the company on 1 November 2017.

• Trump plan to renegotiate Paris dismissed as 'smoke and mirrors'

  02 June 2017

  President Trump's suggestion that the US wants to renegotiate the Paris Agreement, when he announced the country's withdrawal from it, has been dismissed as smoke and mirrors by one industry analyst.

• Breadth of ESG screening at Talanx touches €100bn mark

  02 June 2017

  Talanx Group has expanded its screening of investments by non-financial criteria to cover 90% of its €110 billion ($123.4 billion) own portfolio, but requested stakeholders be patient as it implements the practice fully, which is "not a sprint".

• Green bond market growth has slowed, says underwriter

  02 June 2017

  Green bond market growth has slowed, says underwriter.

• Trump exits Paris Agreement, investors pour scorn

  02 June 2017

  President Donald Trump followed through on his threat to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Accord, despite howls of protest that the US would surrender its leadership on climate action.

• US withdrawal from Paris Agreement 'an irrelevance', say investors

  01 June 2017

  With President Trump widely expected to announce the US' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement today, investors are sceptical over its implications on global climate action with one branding it an 'irrelevance'.