News

  • SEB issues first green bond

    13 February 2017

    Swedish giant Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has issued its first green bond, raising €500 million ($534 million).

  • TCFD to bolster shareholder climate resolutions

    13 February 2017

    The work of the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) will make it harder for companies to ignore the dozens of shareholder resolutions on climate change that have already been filed this year, according to a US-based pension fund.

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 13 February 2017

    13 February 2017

    Week-on-week we saw a continuation of the sideways trading last week as EUA prices ended the week unchanged at €5.16.

  • PiP acquires 30MW of solar farms

    13 February 2017

    The Multi-Strategy Infrastructure Fund (MSIF), managed by the UK's Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PiP), has acquired six solar farms in the country, representing 30MW, from Chinese solar manufacturer Trina Solar for an undisclosed amount.

  • Flood Re reveals contrasts in UK insurers' flood modelling

    13 February 2017

    Britain's flood reinsurance programme has exposed insurers' ability to model and manage flood risk, as Flood Re's chief actuary Gary McInally discusses with Christopher Cundy

  • BlueBay expands ESG fixed-income investment activities

    10 February 2017

    Fixed-income investment manager BlueBay Asset Management has created a high-yield bond investment strategy which applies additional environmental, social and governance (ESG) exclusions.

  • People Moves - HSBC, SEB, MSCI, MDF, Just Finance

    10 February 2017

    Swedish investment bank SEB has named Marie Baumgarts a head of sustainability.

  • Energy efficiency fund launched

    10 February 2017

    A private equity firm is marketing a fund that will focus on mid-sized energy efficiency assets at commercial and industrial sites in Western Europe.

  • LSEG calls for ESG disclosures reports alongside financial reports

    09 February 2017

    The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has called on companies to report on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in the same way as traditional financial disclosures.

  • Renewables reach cost parity with fossil fuels, says Lloyd's Register

    09 February 2017

    Low-carbon technologies are often cost completive with fossil fuels and innovation in the sector is gathering pace, according to a report by Lloyd's Register.