Archive

  • Dalmore Capital and pension fund invest £700m in wind farms

    03 July 2018

    The Pensions Infrastructure Platform, in partnership with Dalmore Capital, has paid £701 million ($925) to EDF Renewables for a 49% stake in a portfolio of 24 UK wind farms.

  • Fixed Income and ESG, featuring the Green Bonds Europe conference

    02 July 2018

    More than 300 delegates assembled in London to discuss the rapidly growing green and sustainability bond market, and the broader topic of integrating ESG into fixed income.

  • EU carbon update, 02 July 2018

    02 July 2018

    In the absence of a sell-off trigger, the direction of EU Allowances (EUAs) this week is likely to be determined largely by moves in the wider energy complex, says Louis Redshaw.

  • Zurich eyes infrastructure for its $5bn impact investment strategy

    02 July 2018

    Zurich Insurance's impact investment strategy is about to trial new ground. The insurer said last week that it would explore the potential of infrastructure investments as part of its $5 billion impact commitment.

  • Swiss Re sets thermal coal re/insurance threshold

    02 July 2018

    Swiss Re will, from today, no longer provide re/insurance services to businesses with more than 30% exposure to thermal coal. The group already applies the same 30% threshold to the asset side of its balance sheet.

  • Avangrid negotiates sustainability-linked credit facility

    02 July 2018

    Avangrid, a diversified US energy company, has agreed a $2.5 billion credit facility whose pricing will be determined by its success in reducing its carbon emissions.

  • SUSI renewables fund backs Norwegian wind project

    02 July 2018

    The €382 million ($445 million) SUSI Renewable Energy Fund II has bought an 80% equity stake in a 208MW wind energy project in Norway, for an undisclosed sum.

  • QMA to launch ESG quant solution based on SASB standards

    29 June 2018

    QMA Research, a quantitative investing solutions provider, is to launch its first strategies specialising environmental, social, governance (ESG) quant investing later this year.

  • People Moves: BlackRock, Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions, AP4, ING, Lightsource BP, European Investment Bank, IIGCC, DNCA Finance and FRC

    29 June 2018

    BlackRock has lost one of the leaders of its push into impact investing, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • Big debate: Green bonds - nothing but hot air?

    29 June 2018

    What is the purpose of green bonds? Can they be additional? Stan Dupre and Lars Eibeholm went head-to-head at Environmental Finance's Fixed Income & ESG conference, moderated by Tanguy Claquin