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  • UK bids to consolidate 'leadership' in green finance

    18 September 2017

    The UK government has announced a taskforce of senior financiers to help accelerate the growth of green finance – a field in which it claims the UK already enjoys global leadership.

  • Nine UK pension funds to adopt much of EAPF's responsible investment strategy

    20 July 2017

    A newly created pool of ten UK Local Government Pension Scheme Funds, with total assets of £27.5 billion ($35.9 billion), will extend much of the Environment Agency Pension Fund's (EAPF) responsible investment strategy across its funds.

  • Shareholder engagement spurs AB InBev to commit to 100% renewables

    29 March 2017

    Anheuser-Busch (AB) InBev, the world's largest brewer, has signed up to the RE100 initiative, following extensive shareholder engagement.

  • Aviva earmarks two coal companies for divestment

    04 November 2016

    Aviva has earmarked two coal companies for "potential divestment", and is considering ditching eight others that are not responding to its requests for engagement.

  • EF BRIEFS: Allianz; Electric car subsidy, US Clean Power Plan hearing postponed

    18 May 2016

    Allianz Global Investors has acquired an onshore wind portfolio from the Dutch Infrastructure Fund (DIF).

  • Half of asset owners still taking no account of climate change risk, says survey

    03 May 2016

    Almost half of institutional asset owners are failing to acknowledge the risk climate change could pose to their portfolios, according to The Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP).

  • How to be a long-term investor

    20 April 2016

    The UK's Environment Agency Pension Fund is sharing its learnings on how to be a long-term investor, rather than a trader, says Mark Mansley

  • TIAA-CREF launches low-carbon and ESG funds

    12 August 2015

    TIAA-CREF has become the latest asset manager to launch a low-carbon fund, following in the footsteps of BlackRock, State Street and Amundi, which have brought similar products to market in recent months.

  • EAPF names sustainable equity mandate winners after extensive search

    02 July 2015

    The UK's Environment Agency pension fund (EAPF) has selected four asset managers for its global sustainability equity mandate after a wide-ranging search.

  • UK's EAPF launches £280m low-carbon fund

    09 June 2015

    The pension fund of the UK's Environment Agency (EAPF) has launched a new low-carbon fund benchmarked on the MSCI Low Carbon Target Index