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  • Amundi: ESG assets face 'crowding risk,' not a 'bubble'

    21 March 2022

    Amundi Asset Management said it is "false" to assert that there is an environmental, social and governance (ESG) asset 'bubble,' despite sustainable assets facing a 'crowding risk'...

  • Total secures shareholder backing for controversial climate strategy

    28 May 2021

  • €450bn of Amundi AUM 'classified under SFDR'

    25 March 2021

  • ETFs managing $72bn address SDGs, says UNCTAD

    19 January 2021

    More than 200 ESG-related exchange-traded funds (ETFs), with about $72 billion in combined assets, in some way address the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

  • EU 'brown' taxonomy proposals split financial sector

    07 December 2020

  • EGO fund buys 10 green bonds

    14 May 2020

    The landmark Amundi emerging market green bond fund bought 10 green bonds last year, meaning it is now almost one-third towards its final goal - but had to sell notes after the fund's advisory committee declared that they should no longer be deemed 'green'.

  • Emerging market green bond issuance jumps a fifth in 2019

    07 May 2020

    Green bond issuance across emerging markets jumped a fifth in 2019, a report by Amundi Asset Management and the International Finance Corporation revealed.

  • Amundi says ESG investment strategies continue to outperform

    14 January 2020

    Environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies in the EU and North America remained a source of outperformance since the start of 2018, an updated report by Amundi Asset Management showed.

  • ESG engagement really does work, say investors

    20 May 2019

    Investors have proved that they have the power to bring about changes in company behaviour, when they engage with them on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, and they even have the potential to influence national governments, a panel at an MSCI conference heard.

  • Amundi/EDF fund secures €500m in equity finance

    04 July 2018

    Amundi Energy Transition (AET), a 60:40 joint venture between French asset manager Amundi and utility EDF, has raised more than €500 million ($582 million) in equity capital to finance energy efficiency projects across France.