Results for AP4
Requests for strategic information about the risks and opportunities posed by climate change have proved a step too far for many. Joe Walsh and Peter Cripps report
Equity,Investors,Stranded Assets
A planned "climate endowment" fund hopes to raise between €20 billion ($22.6 billion) and €40 billion…
ESG,Equity,Investors
A group of investors with $10.3 trillion in assets has demanded that mining companies provide disclosures,…
Investors
What is the outcome of AP4's series of scenario analyses so far, asks Elena K. Johansson.
ESG,Equity,Investors
The world's largest green bond fund bought more green-labelled issuance in its first year than originally anticipated, Frédéric Samama tells Michael Hurley
Green Bonds
The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) has divested from oil sands on the grounds of new Swedish…
Investors
The European Commission's bold proposals to reform benchmark regulation are designed to increase the flow of green finance and reduce the risk of 'greenwashing'. Michael Hurley asks why change is required
ESG,Equity,Investors,Policy
Nearly two thirds of the world’s largest pension funds have little or no disclosed strategy on climate…
ESG,Investors
BlackRock has lost one of the leaders of its push into impact investing, Environmental Finance has learned.
People
The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) has divested from 22 coal companies to reduce the carbon…
Carbon,Stranded Assets
Frédéric Samama has been a key mover in the Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition, the creation of low-carbon indexes, and now the world's biggest green bond fund. He talks to Peter Cripps
Equity,Green Bonds,Investors,Stranded Assets
Climate change is “the biggest risk” to the €36.4 billion ($44 billion) FRR pension fund in coming years, Salwa Boussoukaya-Nasr, chief investment officer of the pension fund, tells Michael Hurley.
Green Bonds,Policy,Stranded Assets
Sweden has been urged to follow in France's footsteps and issue a sovereign green bond, by a government-commissioned…
Green Bonds
Three institutional investors managing about $376 billion in combined assets have joined the UN's Portfolio…
Carbon,Investors,Renewables,Stranded Assets
Two years on from the launch of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, how are investors responding, asks Peter Cripps
Investors
Billions have flowed into funds tracking ESG indexes or low-carbon indexes in recent months. What are the innovations that will drive further growth, asks Peter Cripps
ESG,Investors,Markets
New Zealand Super Fund has shifted its NZ$14 billion ($10 billion) global passive equity portfolio into…
Equity
Social bonds are a 'distraction' from green bonds, as most mainstream investors are just getting used…
Debt,Green Bonds,Investors,Policy
Danish institution KommuneKredit has priced its inaugural green bond, making it the last of Scandinavian…
Green Bonds
Swedish asset management company Granit Fonder has hired Ulf Erlandsson as its new head of fixed income.…
Debt,Green Bonds,Investors
Green Bonds California 2019
Green Bonds Asia 2019
ESG in Fixed Income, featuring the Green Bonds Americas conference
ESG in Fixed Income featuring Green bonds Europe
Conservation finance may appear to be one of the most esoteric investment niches, but experimentation and innovation is giving way to proof of concept – attracting a growing number of institutional investors along the way. Mark Nicholls reports
Is managed decline the only way?