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Chinese green bond indexes launched
20 March 2017A series of indexes tracking both labelled and unlabelled Chinese green bonds has been launched, and will be listed on the Shenzhen and Luxembourg stock exchanges.
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JP Morgan creates sustainable investment team
20 March 2017JP Morgan Asset Management has created a sustainable investment team to better incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into its investment practices.
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BlackRock index-linked green bond fund - details revealed
20 March 2017Asset management giant BlackRock has launched its index-linked green bond fund, plans for which were first revealed by Environmental Finance in January.
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Trump's budget to gut EPA - investors' verdict
17 March 2017President Donald Trump's proposed "America First Budget" will see the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget slashed 31% in 2018.
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Luxembourg Green Exchange breaks €50bn mark
17 March 2017The value of green bonds on the Luxembourg Green Exchange has passed €50 billion, Environmental Finance can reveal.
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Two insurers invest $17m in weather predictive technology
17 March 2017Established modellers are "charging too much and delivering too little", says Weather Analytics
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BAML's Martin Mills retires
17 March 2017Bank of America Merrill Lynch's (BAML) head of the product solutions team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Martin Mills, has retired from the company, Environmental Finance has learned.
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TSKB to issue sustainability bond to increase bank capital
16 March 2017Turkish investment and development bank Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma (TSKB) is gearing up to issue a first-of-its-kind sustainability bond that will be partially used to meet the bank's capital requirements.
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Divesting bonds from high-carbon issuers 'would not sacrifice alpha'
16 March 2017Bond portfolios that divest issues from companies with high carbon footprints would not sacrifice significant alpha, research has suggested.
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Pension funds back Scandinavian infrastructure fund with DKK8.8bn
16 March 2017Danish fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has launched a new energy infrastructure fund targeting renewables, with initial commitments of DKK8.8 billion ($1.3 billion).
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