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Rathbone Greenbank identifies biodiversity as key theme for 2020
14 January 2020Rathbone Greenbank Investments has identified biodiversity, climate change and regulation as the top three environmental, social and governance (ESG) themes for 2020
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EU Carbon Market Update, 13 January
14 January 2020The outlook is bearish for EU Allowance prices, says Adam Windmill*, as auction supply doubles this week with no obvious additional sources of demand
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BlackRock announces expanded sustainable investment measures
14 January 2020BlackRock has pledged to make sustainability its "new standard of investing," as it announced sweeping changes to its practices, including reducing exposure to thermal coal firms.
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Swiss Re structures cat bond to protect asset manager against quake risk
14 January 2020Swiss Re's insurance-linked securities (ILS) unit has structed and placed a pioneering parametric catastrophe bond covering US earthquake risks in a portfolio of mortgage investments.
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Amundi says ESG investment strategies continue to outperform
14 January 2020Environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies in the EU and North America remained a source of outperformance since the start of 2018, an updated report by Amundi Asset Management showed.
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Solactive launches indexes linked to 'megatrends'
14 January 2020German index provider Solactive has released the Future Trends Index Series, based on economic factors defined as 'megatrends'.
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Franklin Templeton warns SDGs vulnerable to misuse and dilution
14 January 2020Franklin Templeton has warned that the UN Social Development Goals are "vulnerable to misuse, misrepresentation and dilution" if companies fail to go beyond announcing alignment with the goals towards actively contributing to them.
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NextEnergy Capital reaches $280m at second close of solar fund
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Liontrust sustainability funds attract record inflows in 2019
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California plans large green bond in five-year, $12.5bn climate budget
13 January 2020