News

  • PDC hits $600bn, eyes a trillion

    07 December 2015

    The Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition is set to have attracted more than $600 billion of assets by the end of the Paris climate summit, and is now eyeing a new target of a trillion.

  • SunEdison may face legal action over Vivint

    04 December 2015

    Billionaire investor David Tepper has compounded a tough couple of months for SunEdison's management with a threat of legal action and raised his stake in its yieldco subsidiary TerraForm Power (TERP) to 9.7%.

  • EF BRIEFS: S&P Dow Jones Indices, Bluefield, Greencoat

    04 December 2015

    UK solar energy investor Bluefield raises £31.6m in equity raise

  • Natixis/Groupe BPCE green bond is four-times oversubscribed

    04 December 2015

    France's second biggest bank, Groupe BPCE, has issued a green bond in a deal that was four-times oversubscribed.

  • ABP introduces internal emissions cap

    04 December 2015

    Dutch public sector pension fund ABP has stepped up its sustainability drive by announcing a series of 2020 commitments including what is believed to be the first carbon budget for an asset owner.

  • Consultation starts on India's national green bond standards

    04 December 2015

    The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), has become the latest financial regulator to launch a set of national green bond standards.

  • New York's pension fund puts $2bn into low-carbon index

    04 December 2015

    New York State Common Retirement Fund has launched a $2 billion fund that will track a low-carbon index, excluding pureplay coal companies.

  • BAML predicts up to $90 billion of green bond issuance in 2016

    04 December 2015

    Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has defied the trend for refusing to predict green bond growth, saying the market is likely to see $50 billion - $60 billion of issuance in 2016.

  • Major US asset manager to launch green bond fund

    03 December 2015

    A US asset manager is set to hit the market with a green bond fund, the ninth to launch this year.

  • Impax reports 69% growth in profits and dividend boost

    03 December 2015

    Environmentally themed investor Impax Asset Management has reported a 68.6% increase in its profits for the year ended 30 September.