Scor scales up coal divestment policies
Insurer Scor has strengthened its coal exclusion policies, but it still falls short of alignment with…
Carbon,Investors,Insurance
Results for QBE
Insurer Scor has strengthened its coal exclusion policies, but it still falls short of alignment with…
Carbon,Investors,Insurance
Talanx Group, the parent firm of Hanover Re, is the latest in the growing ranks of insurers to distance…
Investors,Renewables,Insurance
Australian insurer QBE will target zero direct investment in the thermal coal industry by 1 July 2019,…
Insurance
A group of leaders and senior executives at Australia’s major banks, superannuation funds and insurance…
ESG,Investors,Policy
Suncorp has been identified by Sustainalytics as the best-positioned property and casualty insurers to…
ESG,Insurance
QBE has set a goal to grow its impact investment portfolio to $1bn by 2021, tripling its previous minimum…
Investors,Insurance
Asia-Pacific firms fare slightly better; Swiss Re and Axa earn top marks
Insurance
The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has announced a partnership with 16 of the…
ESG,Investors,Insurance
QBE Insurance Australia, the domestic arm of Australia-based underwriter QBE, is to invest A$100 million…
Insurance
April was a solid month for green bond issuance, raising some $5.6 billion. That figure is up on the $5.3 billion for the same month last year, mainly thanks to a RMB15000 ($2.2 billion) from Bank of Beijing, the biggest Chinese green bond of the year.
Green Bonds
QBE Insurance Group is gearing up to issue the sector's first green bond, Paul Byrne its group treasurer speaks to Environmental Finance exclusively
Debt,Green Bonds,People,Insurance
The first green bond from an insurance company has hit the market. Its proceeds will be used to finance…
Green Bonds,Insurance
French rail operator SNCF Reseau is gearing up to issue its second green bond.
Green Bonds
Japanese insurer Nippon Life has pledged to invest a further JPY200 billion ($1.7 billion) in environmental,…
Debt,ESG,Green Bonds,Investors,Insurance
An initiative from QBE allows the insurer's customers to opt to have up to 25% of their premiums invested responsibly. Tom Herbstein and Andrew Voysey explain why the initiative is an important development
Green Bonds,Investors,Insurance
The World Bank has today launched its first green bond on the Australian market, raising AU$300 million…
Debt,Green Bonds
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?