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  • Profile: Peter Michaelis, Alliance Trust

    14 September 2015

    Alliance Trust put its faith in environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics when it promoted Peter Michaelis to take charge of its equities investments, in September 2014.

  • TRIG sells £128m of shares at cut-down price

    17 July 2015

    The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) has raised £127.75 million ($200 million) after cutting the price of its shares after the UK renewables sector was hit by the withdrawal of a tax break.

  • Sunrun follows SolarCity into solar ABS market

    02 July 2015

    Sunrun is set to issue a $111 million solar asset-backed security (ABS), making it the second rooftop solar provider, behind SolarCity, to tap the market.

  • Sustainability accounting project approaches key milestone

    12 May 2015

    Non-financial accounting standards for all major industrial sectors should be available within 12 months, said the California-based Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).

  • TRIG's fundraise grows to £110m

    20 April 2015

    The Renewables Infrastructure Group has boosted the amount of capital it has raised in 2015 to £110 million thanks to a "heavily oversubscribed" retail offering.

  • KKR's green programme has $1bn of financial impact

    22 October 2014

    Private equity giant KKR said its Green Portfolio Programme (GPP) has had $1.2 billion of financial impact since it began six years ago.

  • Solactive and Corporate Knights launch low-carbon index

    26 September 2014

    A family of low-carbon indexes has been launched, which claims to be the first to use a system established by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).

  • Acciona to target 'at least $250m' in yieldco float

    01 August 2014

    Spanish engineering firm Acciona has said it will target raising at least $250 million when it floats its renewables yieldco.

  • KKR and ACCIONA in €417m renewables deal, companies plot yieldco

    24 June 2014

    Private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has spent €417 million buying a third of the renewables division of Spanish engineering firm ACCIONA.

  • Updated: Abengoa raises $829m in upsized yieldco IPO

    13 June 2014

    Cleantech engineering firm Abengoa has raised $828.9 million through floating a 'yieldco' after upsizing the scale and pricing of the listing.