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Investors 'left to fend for themselves' amid lack of social guidance

The sustainable finance market is "being left to fend for itself" when it comes to identifying material social metrics, an Environmental Finance conference heard.

Market-wide stewardship driving sustainable outcomes

Manulife Investment Management's Peter Mennie and Brian Kernohan have identified five ways in which the asset manager can exert its investment stewardship to help address systematic issues

RepRisk reveals findings on environmental risk of public companies

Talanx powers down its thermal coal underwriting exposure

Talanx has reduced its thermal coal infrastructure risks by 17.7% as of year-end 2022 compared with a 2019 baseline.

EU's SFDR 'has had fundamental impact in US'

The EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) has "fundamentally" impacted asset managers in the US, a conference heard.

MAS's Menon warns of 'significant macroeconomic implications' of biodiversity loss

The Monetary Authority of Singapore's managing director Ravi Menon has urged financial institutions to proactively manage the risk of biodiversity loss, warning it could have "significant macroeconomic implications".

Sustainability-linked bond data transparency 'getting better'

The data transparency for sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) is "definitely getting better" as market providers increase granularity of their datasets,...

Pollination pitches tax to scale biodiversity credit market

Governments could impose a tax on corporates that are harming nature, as a way of fostering biodiversity credit markets, Pollination has said.

Temasek-backed ABC Impact invests in biodegradable plastics

Western Australia plans sustainable bond debut by June

Western Australian Treasury Corporation (WATC) is planning to issue its inaugural sustainable bond by the end of June, the borrowing authority for the Australian state said as it published its framework.