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  • Solactive launches low-carbon indexes

    26 January 2016

    Specialist index provider Solactive has launched a series of six low-carbon equity indexes, based on three geographical areas: Europe, the eurozone and the US.

  • California insurance chief urges insurers to divest from coal

    26 January 2016

    Asset class risks rapid decline in value

  • BSIF increases credit facility and buys six projects

    26 January 2016

    Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) has purchased six UK solar farms, expanding its capacity of its portfolio by a third.

  • Impax launches new fund

    26 January 2016

    Impax Asset Management has launched the Impax Environmental Leaders Ireland Fund.

  • Third issue takes EIB through $1bn of green bonds in January

    25 January 2016

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has issued its third green bond of the year, taking it through the $1 billion mark, just weeks into 20

  • Best performing funds of 2015: BNP Paribas Aqua Fund

    25 January 2016

    Hubert Aarts tells Hamza Ali how the fund's shift to a more defensive position helped it beat its benchmark.

  • EU carbon market weekly update - 25 January 2016

    25 January 2016

    The slide in the EU's carbon market continued last week, and with mixed indicators this week, a significant rebound looks unlikely, says Louis Redshaw.

  • Kommuninvest set to issue benchmark green bond

    25 January 2016

    Swedish public sector lender Kommuninvest is gearing up to launch its inaugural green bond, a benchmark issue to help finance and refinance its green loan book.

  • EF BRIEFS: Iberdrola, Munich Re, CoPower, Haringey Council Pension Fund, Swiss Re

    25 January 2016

    MEAG, the asset management arm of Munich Re, has bought a 27MW solar farm in the UK from BayWa r.e.

  • New York launches $5bn clean energy fund, completes Green Bank funding

    25 January 2016

    A $5 billion fund to accelerate the use of clean energy in New York state and boost the area's resilience to extreme weather, has been launched by governor Andrew Cuomo.