Green bond fund assets reach $25bn
Despite challenging market conditions, total assets in green bond funds hit $25 billion at the end of 2021. Ahren Lester reports
Debt,Green Bonds,Investment
Results for AXA Investment Managers
Despite challenging market conditions, total assets in green bond funds hit $25 billion at the end of 2021. Ahren Lester reports
Debt,Green Bonds,Investment
AXA Investment Managers (IM) has launched a €30 million ($34 million) social and sustainable bond fund,…
IMPACT,Investment
Axa Investment Managers (Axa IM) has launched an £11 million ($15 million) short-duration green bond…
Green Bonds,Investment
A €5 trillion ($5.7 trillion) French investor initiative focused on improving corporate gender diversity…
ESG,ESG Data,Equity,Investment
Financial institutions, corporates, governments and regulators have been asked to explain how they measure…
IMPACT,Natural Capital
Amid ongoing innovation and accelerating growth in 2021, where should the sustainability-linked bond market look next? Ahren Lester reports
Debt,ESG,Green Bonds
Private equity firm Circularity Capital and Axa Investment Managers' (Axa IM) alternatives division have…
IMPACT
ESG
ESG
A legal framework for impact, harmonisation of reporting frameworks and the rise of impact indexes could shape 2021, writes Michael Hurley
IMPACT
Financial institutions continue to struggle to report decision-useful information on how their overall…
ESG Data,Policy
Morningstar has identified Vanguard and Lyxor among asset managers with a 'low' level of commitment to…
ESG,Investment
European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans encouraged EU member states to use funds from the…
ESG
Four French asset managers have issued a mandate to develop a tool to help investors integrate nature…
ESG Data,IMPACT,Natural Capital
ISS ESG has updated its second party opinion (SPO) methodology to support issuers of transition bonds…
Debt,ESG,Green Bonds
Nippon Life intends to invest this month in TPG's Rise Fund, as part of a plan to eventually invest JPY30…
IMPACT
Axa Investment Managers has tried not to be "too stringent" when assessing bonds issued in response to…
ESG,Green Bonds
A working group convened by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) exploring the theme of…
Green Bonds
ESG data provider Sustainalytics has launched a transition bond second-party opinion service, the first…
Green Bonds,Stranded Assets
APG Asset Management has invested €554 million ($604 million) in 'Covid-19 bonds' in recent weeks, a…
Debt,IMPACT