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Pictet launches environmental-tech focused ELTIF

The UK's SDR has overlooked 'ethical' funds

The UK's Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) should create an additional label for 'ethical' funds, an asset manager has argued.

Impact taskforce drafts disclosure guidance for meeting SDGs

The Impact Disclosure Taskforce has published draft disclosure guidance to help corporate and sovereign issuers measure and disclose their efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

'Huge opportunity' for private transition credit growth, says HSBC

There is a "huge opportunity" for private credit markets to provide transition finance, in particular direct lending through sustainability-linked loans (SLLs), said HSBC Asset Management (HSBC AM).

NZAOA releases fourth target setting protocol

The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) has released the fourth edition of the Target-Setting Protocol (TSP V4) which expands private asset classes coverage, requires a new round of targets and introduces the assessment of govvies' holdings.

Sustainability-linked loan model 'may have been ahead of its time'

The model for sustainability-linked loans "might have been ahead of its time" in the leeway it gives borrowers to choose which sustainability-related indicators they will be judged against, an Environmental Finance conference heard.

'Just transition' data a work in progress, development bank claims

A development bank is working on metrics to measure and report on 'just transition', an Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt EMEA conference in London has heard.

SDG mapping unhelpful with bond impact reporting

Mapping the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is unhelpful for reporting and tracking the impact of bonds, an Environmental Finance event heard.

Natural capital will become a fundamental component of investors' portfolios

Ben O'Donnell responds to Environmental Finance's article: 'Comment: Can natural capital become its own asset class?'

Nordea to close social bond fund after just over a year

Nordea Asset Management is closing its social bond fund, highlighting the travails of the market.