Archive

  • Union Investment and DekaBank leave German SIF

    05 January 2024

    Union Investment and DekaBank have left the German Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen (FNG), with the former saying the national sustainable investment forum and its label had become less relevant in the face of regulation.

  • Union Investment: SLBs can have impact

    03 April 2023

    The market needs to promote the strongest SLBs rather than just pile-in on the weakest in order to support the development of a potentially valuable instrument, Union Investment's Johannes Böhm tells Ahren Lester.

  • German ESG supply chain law welcomed by Union Investment

    11 January 2023

    German legislation which requires companies to assess and prevent ESG abuses in their supply chains is a "step towards increased responsibility and transparency", Union Investments has said.

  • Debut EU green bond expected in October

    07 September 2021

    The EU will issue its debut green bond in October as it prepares to kick-start its massive five-year €250 billion ($297 billion) green bond programme

  • Union Investment working on 'transition' scores for companies

    06 May 2021

    The German asset manager is preparing to increase its scrutiny of companies' transition strategies, Henrik Pontzen tells Peter Cripps

  • EU issues 'landmark' inaugural social bond to enormous demand

    20 October 2020

    The EU has issued its maiden social bond to enormous investor demand, in what has been described a "landmark" issuance.

  • People moves: Finance for Tomorrow, M&GPrudential, KEB Hana Bank, Union Investment Institutional

    31 May 2019

    Philippe Zaouati, CEO of French asset manager Mirova, part of Natixis Investment Managers, has stepped down as chair of Finance for Tomorrow.

  • CA100+ investors welcome BASF, RWE climate lobbying pledge

    03 May 2019

    Pledges by chemicals giant BASF and German utility RWE to review their lobbying activities on climate change have been welcomed by a group of investors including Union Investment, the Church of England Pensions Board and Sweden’s AP7 pension fund.

  • People Moves: Deka Investment, RCG, E3G and Actis

    12 April 2019

    Deka Investment, a subsidiary of German DekaBank with €282.9 billion (€320 billion) assets under management, has appointed Ingo Speich as head of sustainability and corporate governance.

  • Stranded assets tool for real estate piloted

    05 October 2018

    German asset manager Union Investment has helped develop a free-to-use stranded assets tool for commercial real estate.