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Amundi's one-year-old green bond fund 'ahead of schedule'
04 March 2019The world's largest green bond fund bought more green-labelled issuance in its first year than originally anticipated, Frédéric Samama tells Michael Hurley
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BMO launches SDG engagement fund
04 March 2019BMO Global Asset Management has launched an equity fund that will actively engage with investee companies、 using the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework.
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Actiam launches passive sustainable real estate fund
04 March 2019Dutch asset manager Actiam has launched a passively-managed sustainable real estate fund targeting investments that contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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ISS ESG launches tools to tailor-make ESG indices
04 March 2019ISS ESG, the responsible investment-focused arm of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), has launched tools that allow investors to create their own customised environmental, social and governance (ESG) indexing strategies.
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Church Investors’ climate voting policy targets utilities
04 March 2019The £21 billion ($27.8 billion) Church Investors Group (CIG) will vote against the chair of electricity utilities that do not have Paris-compliant emissions reduction targets, under its updated voting policy.
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ESG scores may never standardise, argues LGIM
01 March 2019“We may never reach a point where environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores across providers are standardised or uniform”, a Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) index specialist has argued.
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Sustainability by proxy - Part three: Hermes EOS
01 March 2019In the third of a four-part series on highly influential proxy voting providers, Michael Hurley asks Hermes EOS what it is doing to develop the guidance it provides investors on environmental issues
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$1.8trn investor group urges US utilities to set net-zero carbon deadline
01 March 2019Investors representing a combined $1.8 trillion in assets have demanded that the 20 largest publicly traded electricity utilities in the US commit to achieving net-zero carbon emissions.
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Snam's bond should trigger a discussion about 'transition bonds', says BNP
01 March 2019An underwriter of Snam's 'climate action bond' has launched an impassioned defence of the issue, arguing that issues such as this are needed to help companies from high-emitting sectors to transition to lower-carbon business models.
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SEK6.5bn SDG fund makes final close
01 March 2019Swedish private equity firm Summa Equity has grown its SDG fund to SEK6.5 billion ($704 million) at final close, after it was launched three years ago.