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  • Investors target Volkswagen for climate lobbying

    05 April 2022

    Seven European investors have co-filed a shareholder resolution with Volkswagen for "trailing behind its peers" to report its climate lobbying, after more than three years of dialogue with the car company.

  • People Moves: AP3, Candriam and ESMA

    24 May 2019

    The Third Swedish National Pension Fund (AP3), with SEK340.7 billion ($35.64 billion) of assets under management, has appointed Pablo Bernengo as its chief investment officer.

  • Investors up pressure on mining companies to disclose

    08 April 2019

    A group of investors with $10.3 trillion in assets has demanded that mining companies provide disclosures, within 45 days, on every tailings facility under their control.

  • Amundi's one-year-old green bond fund 'ahead of schedule'

    04 March 2019

    The world's largest green bond fund bought more green-labelled issuance in its first year than originally anticipated, Frédéric Samama tells Michael Hurley

  • NIB prices inaugural blue bond

    25 January 2019

    Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has priced a "landmark" blue bond to help protect and rehabilitate the Baltic Sea.

  • AP4 phases out high-carbon emitting oil sands

    18 January 2019

    The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) has divested from oil sands on the grounds of new Swedish legislation, and amended its investment policy accordingly.

  • People moves: AP3, ISS-Oekom, IETA

    10 August 2018

    Mårten Lindeborg, AP3’s CIO and deputy CEO, has passed away. The Swedish buffer fund announced yesterday that Lindeborg died after a short illness

  • Mapping the SDGs

    11 December 2017

    Two years on from the launch of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, how are investors responding, asks Peter Cripps

  • Green bond comment February: Another milestone passed

    01 March 2017

    The green bond market cruised past yet another milestone in February - it has now raised more than $200 billion since its inception under a decade ago. Of the $202.6 billion raised so far, $188.5 billion is currently outstanding.

  • AP3 more than doubles green bond investments in 2016

    28 February 2017

    Sweden's third national pension fund, AP3, has more than doubled its green bond investments in 2016, from SEK4.5 billion ($500 million) to SEK9.5 billion.