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A Business Guide to Sustainable Finance

3BL Media

Sustainability-linked bonds Similar to green bonds, but with a broader focus, sustainability-linked bonds are designed to finance or refinance projects that have a positive impact on the issuer's sustainability performance. The return on these bonds is often linked to the issuer's achievement of ambitious, predefined sustainability targets.

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Climate tops ESG Priorities for US Institutional Investors

Chris Hall

US SIF Foundation biennial trends reports smaller share of assets managed sustainably, due to methodology, regulatory changes. This is the first time that climate change has been the top criterion for US asset owners, applied to US$3.96 Managers also reported applying fossil fuel divestment screens across US$1.2

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This Week’s Fund News: DWS Launches ESG Fund for Women, by Women

Chris Hall

Driving substantive progress in the fight against climate change will require entire sectors to transition. We focus instead on reducing the funds’ exposure to emissions, the most significant driver of climate change,” said Jim Whittington, Head of Responsible Investment at Dimensional.

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ESG Narratives Needed as well as Numbers

Chris Hall

This could manifest itself in institutional and intermediary clients focusing more on solutions that demonstrably deliver positive real-world outcomes, informed by a theory of change, and seeking explanations of investment relevance. A long way to go”.

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Sustainability trends 2023

Carlos Sanchez

In this context, the case to demonstrate impact has gained in popularity. Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Consequently the information ESG investors are seeking is changing too. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2

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A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good

Stanford Social Innovation

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impactinvestments, your options are limited.