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World Bank issues $100m plastic waste reduction-linked bond

The World Bank has raised $100 million from a ground-breaking outcomes-based bond that links its coupon payments to verified plastic and carbon credits generated by projects in Ghana and Indonesia.

People Moves, 3 November: Fidelity, Blue Earth Capital, FoSDA, Low Carbon and more

Nordic insurers invest $90m in SDG fund

Skandia Mutual Life Insurance Company, Kåpan Pensioners and Nordea Life & Pensions have invested a combined $90.4m in a fund launched by US impact investment firm Developing World Markets (DWM).

Insurer Skandia buys novel bond to fund diabetes prevention

Swedish insurer Skandia has bought a SEK30 million ($3.2 million) 'health impact' bond from Region Stockholm, the local authority of the Swedish capital.

People Moves: Nature Conservancy, UBS, Premier Asset Management, AP6, LuxFLAG

NGO the Nature Conservancy has announced board directors and leadership members.

People moves: AP3, ISS-Oekom, IETA

Mårten Lindeborg, AP3’s CIO and deputy CEO, has passed away. The Swedish buffer fund announced yesterday that Lindeborg died after a short illness

Investors with €5trn of assets call for halt to arctic oil drilling

A group of institutional investors, representing €5 trillion ($5.52 trillion) of assets under management, have called for a "permanent moratorium" on arctic oil drilling.