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Pictet launches environmental-tech focused ELTIF
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The UK's SDR has overlooked 'ethical' funds
22 April 2024The UK's Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) should create an additional label for 'ethical' funds, an asset manager has argued.
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Impact taskforce drafts disclosure guidance for meeting SDGs
22 April 2024The 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).
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'Huge opportunity' for private transition credit growth, says HSBC
19 April 2024There 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).
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NZAOA releases fourth target setting protocol
19 April 2024The 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.
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Sustainability-linked loan model 'may have been ahead of its time'
18 April 2024The 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.
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'Just transition' data a work in progress, development bank claims
18 April 2024A development bank is working on metrics to measure and report on 'just transition', an Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt EMEA conference in London has heard.
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SDG mapping unhelpful with bond impact reporting
17 April 2024Mapping the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is unhelpful for reporting and tracking the impact of bonds, an Environmental Finance event heard.
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Natural capital will become a fundamental component of investors' portfolios
16 April 2024Ben O'Donnell responds to Environmental Finance's article: 'Comment: Can natural capital become its own asset class?'
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Nordea to close social bond fund after just over a year
15 April 2024Nordea Asset Management is closing its social bond fund, highlighting the travails of the market.