Environmental Finance

JUNE 18, 2025

and more 18 June 2025 Sustainable debt round-up: IDA, Covivio, Togo. Carrefour raises €650m from first SLB under new framework 18 June 2025 French supermarket chain Carrefour has raised €650 million ($750 million) from the first sustainability-linked bond (SLB) it has issued under its updated and expanded framework.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Investments Leadership Development Program at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, U.S. Many have cited the past year as an inflection point for sustainable investing. I hope to see an increased push for carbon-neutral investments and economic structures that are available to people of all financial and social classes.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The IEEFA’s Christina Ng says China’s state-owned enterprises continue to allocate up to half of their green bond proceeds to non-green projects. . China’s ambition to green its financial market has been making significant progress. SOEs accounted for about half the onshore green issuances from 2019 to 2022.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since. Green bonds are indeed often oversubscribed due to their success.

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 18, 2025

to English rewilding initiative 19 June 2025 NatWest Cushon picks Aviva Investors for first natural capital investment 18 June 2025 NatWests UK workplace pensions arm, NatWest Cushon, has chosen Aviva Investors Carbon Removal Fund for its first natural capital allocation. to English rewilding initiative 19 June 2025 Triodos loans £1.5m

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 18, 2025

Sustainable reversal in the era of the Omnibus Directive Latest Stories NatWest Cushon picks Aviva Investors for first natural capital investment 18 June 2025 NatWests UK workplace pensions arm, NatWest Cushon, has chosen Aviva Investors Carbon Removal Fund for its first natural capital allocation.

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 18, 2025

Sustainable reversal in the era of the Omnibus Directive Latest Stories NatWest Cushon picks Aviva Investors for first natural capital investment 18 June 2025 NatWests UK workplace pensions arm, NatWest Cushon, has chosen Aviva Investors Carbon Removal Fund for its first natural capital allocation. Dont have an account yet?

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 18, 2025

Sustainable reversal in the era of the Omnibus Directive Latest Stories NatWest Cushon picks Aviva Investors for first natural capital investment 18 June 2025 NatWests UK workplace pensions arm, NatWest Cushon, has chosen Aviva Investors Carbon Removal Fund for its first natural capital allocation.

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ESG Today

JULY 27, 2023

The Impact Corporate Bond Fund will invest globally in corporate high yield and investment grade green, social and sustainable bonds that have clearly defined social or environmental objectives and impact, with a focus on bonds that target a broad range of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Robeco, Morgan Stanley IM, GMPF, Impax AM, Orchard Street IM and Nuveen. . The strategies look to deliver competitive investment results and sustainable impact across listed global equities and green bonds respectively.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In its semi-annual Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities (TRV) report, ESMA notes the need for “significant public and private sector financing” to achieve the EU Green Deal objectives and support the green transformation of the economy. leading to increasing caution towards ESG investing and shareholder engagement.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

How escalating demands in the labelled bond space are changing practices for investors and what you need to do to keep pace. By Sustainable Fitch. Investor thirst for sustainable investments across all asset classes has seen fixed income issuance creation and supply skyrocket year-over-year to meet the demand.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including LGIM, Amundi, LOIM, Algebris, R&M, and Banor Capital. . Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) , which has £1.42 trillion in AUM, has launched the L&G Net Zero Global Corporate Bond Fund.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Additional clarifications about the definition of a sustainable investment and about Article 8 and Article 9 classifications are expected soon, but in the meantime, caution and thorough due diligence remains key,” said Hortense Bioy, Global Director of Sustainable Research at Morningstar.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

Engagement is a key part of NN IP’s sustainable investment strategy, and Siermann argues there is no reason why bondholders cannot exert the same influence as shareholders over a company’s behaviour – and ESG performance in particular – despite having no voting rights. For us a green bond is a pure impact investment,” Siermann says.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2024

End of an era I – The fight against greenwashing inched ahead with the release of final guidelines for naming ESG- or sustainability-related funds by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). Italy’s green debt relief – Scarcity of sustainable assets was only one of the reasons for record-breaking demand for €9 billion (US$9.71

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

New funds will have to comply with the rules from 21 November, while existing funds have until May 2025. These rules were introduced in the wake of a consultation seeking feedback on the current requirements of SFDR , which asked whether its Article 8 and 9 disclosure categories should be more formally established as fund labels.

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Jon Hale

JANUARY 7, 2022

End of Week Notes How Bloomberg Businessweek’s takedown of MSCI’s ESG Ratings got it wrong Sustainable investing has attracted its share of criticism lately. Further complicating matters, sustainable investing has not sprung forth as a unified, fully developed investment approach. To the contrary, this idea?—?that

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including LGIM, M&G, Stewart Investors, Aviva Investors, Ossiam, Janus Henderson and Quintet. .

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 24, 2017

Calculating the potential yields of such investments can be tricky and I am glad I got a first forray into this fascinating and booming sector. Meanwhile, my last MBA class was on Sustainable Investing with Natasha Lamb, her husband Adam and Adam Seitchick. My research for the green bonds article have shown this.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 8, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including CBRE, NN Group, Nuveen, Shell Foundation, Low Carbon, Brown Advisory, and Aidu. . The fund therefore qualifies as Article 8 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including HSBC AM, RLAM, LOIM, Algebris Investments and TLEI. . HSBC Asset Management has launched the HGIF Global Emerging Markets Corporate Sustainable Bond fund.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Invesco, Edentree, AXA IM, HSBC AM, Octopus, Brown Advisory, NEC, Tabula and Global Palladium Fund. Invesco has rebadged its Invesco UK Companies fund as the Invesco Sustainable UK Companies fund.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2023

JPM AM requires analysts to use a proprietary questionnaire to verify alignment of GSS bonds in the fund with the ICMA principles. The new funds will qualify as Article 9 under EU SFDR.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including LOIM, Pictet, AXA, Tikehau Capital, BNPP AM, Eurazeo, and Cibus Funds. . Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) has partnered with the Alliance to End Plastic Waste to introduce a new circular plastic fund.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 18, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including BNPP AM, Western Asset, GAM, Blue Horizon, Gresham House and Architas. . Western Asset , the specialist fixed-income investment manager of Franklin Templeton, has launched the Sustainable Global Corporate Bond fund.

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

The basis for many of these is the EU taxonomy (and to a lesser extent China’s mandatory taxonomy for use of green-bond proceeds). Taxonomy alignment, coupled with increasingly robust verifiability mechanisms, make for an appealing combination for qualifying investments.” . The data backs this up.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including DWS, T. The ESG Women for Women fund is managed exclusively by women, investing in companies that have strong social values and fair working conditions for women. “The

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Mediolanum, KBI Global Investors, Pictet Asset Management, Invesco, Nuveen, SWEN Capital Partners and SIS Ventures.

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Chris Hall

MAY 20, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Robeco, CFSL, abrdn, UKIB, Octopus Investments, Downing, KGAL, and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation. Dutch asset manager Robeco has launched a new bond strategy that will invest in diversified Asian fixed income.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

Cardano favours sustainable bonds that “provide an efficient solution for pension funds looking to hedge interest rate risk across liabilities while investing sustainably”, says Martindale. Investing in green bonds ensures that capital is supporting progress towards climate change targets.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Most are equity funds, but they also include 125 green bond funds, which are expected to attract growing interest. Europe, by far the largest sustainable fund market with 84% of total global assets, saw net inflows of US$15.3 and many Republican lawmakers are publicly attacking ESG investing. Recently, BlackRock Inc.

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Sustainability Update

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Among these trends are sustainability disclosure requirements becoming more stringent and standardized globally, with companies facing increased scrutiny and potential penalties for greenwashing. Sustainable finance such as ESG-linked financial products and green bonds are projected to expand rapidly.

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Chris Hall

JULY 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Robeco, Actis, DWS, AXA IM Alts, iCapital, and NN IP. . The strategic partnership aims to increase wealth managers’ access to investing opportunities in the private market.

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