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  • People Moves: AXA, Lightsource BP, Triodos, Zurich

    24 September 2018

    AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has set up a central responsible investment (RI) team, as it seeks to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into all of its investment platforms.

  • Moody's devises methodology for assessing ESG credit risk

    24 September 2018

    Moody's Investors Service has called for feedback on its proposed cross-sector methodology that describes the company's general principles for assessing environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in its credit analysis globally.

  • Nuveen charts course for zero carbon real estate portfolio

    24 September 2018

    US asset manager Nuveen is developing a 'route map' to show how to make its real estate equity portfolio net zero-carbon by 2050.

  • Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund invests $1bn in EV company

    21 September 2018

    Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) has agreed to invest over $1 billion in electric vehicle company Lucid Motors, as the country looks to diversify its revenues away from oil.

  • Natixis proposes toolkit to tackle SDG-washing

    21 September 2018

    Investors are "massively dissatisfied" with the way companies report their contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to Natixis.

  • Comment: Driving disclosure

    21 September 2018

    The best remedy for investors' carbon addiction is better quality information about companies' climate strategies, argues Daniel Klier

  • BlackRock insurance report sees green bonds surge within larger ESG uptake

    20 September 2018

    Insurers are expected to boost green bond investments in the next five years, as a majority has adopted environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment policies in North America and Europe, a BlackRock report said.

  • Europe's moment to lead on green financial centres

    20 September 2018

    Europe's financial centres are teaming up to mobilise the vast sums of capital needed to meet global climate targets. Under a new Europe-wide initiative, green financial centres are aiming to significantly accelerate the shift to sustainable finance.

  • Bank loans for green project finance have lower default risk than non-green, finds Moody's

    19 September 2018

    Project finance bank loans for green use-of-proceeds projects demonstrate a lower risk of default compared with non-green projects, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.

  • Green bond round-up, 19 September

    19 September 2018

    DZ Bank is planning to raise €250 million ($300 million) by issuing its first labelled green bond.