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  • Green bond round-up, 13 September 2017

    13 September 2017

    Canada's Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank has doubled the size of its latest green bond transaction to $1 billion, after demand swelled to more than $2 billion.

  • Big in Japan?

    04 September 2017

    Support from the biggest pension fund in the world is helping ESG take off in Japan, write Peter Cripps and Joe Walsh

  • Two major LatAm wind deals reach financial close

    09 August 2017

    Two major wind deals in Latin America, both involving emerging markets private equity firm Actis, have reached financial close.

  • Impax fund outperforms benchmark by 2% despite missing out on Tesla boom

    03 August 2017

    Environmental-themed asset manager Impax's flagship investment trust has outperformed its benchmark by 2.6 percentage points in the first six months of the year.

  • HgCapital sells stake in Irish wind assets to Japanese

    02 August 2017

    Invis Energy, a joint venture between HgCapital and engineering company Craydel, has sold a 60% stake in five Irish wind farms to a group of Japanese investors. The price paid was not disclosed.

  • India, Paris and EIB add $2bn to green bond market

    03 July 2017

    The European Investment Bank (EIB), has issued a €1 billion ($1.124 billion) Climate Awareness Bond maturing in 2047.

  • Insurers are bystanders on climate change risk management

    19 June 2017

    Insurers are largely bystanders when it comes to managing climate change risk in their investment portfolios, according to the latest survey by the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP).

  • Credit Agricole, BNP and Natixis fund world's largest solar project

    25 May 2017

    The world's largest solar photovoltaic (PV) project, at 1.2GW when operational, has received $900 million in funding including loans from Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Natixis as part of a banking syndicate.

  • Impact investors turn to water stocks, says KBI

    02 May 2017

    Water is becoming "an almost intuitive" impact allocation for a growing number of investors, according to KBI Global Investors (KBIGI).

  • Exxon board fights climate resolution

    25 April 2017

    ExxonMobil's board has refused to support a climate change resolution backed by investors with over $10 trillion in assets under management (AUM).