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Rockefeller hires Chief Investment Officer

SMBC group hires director of ESG

Scor appoints Lacroix group head of sustainability

Circularity Capital appoints operating principal

UN agency advocates 'more long-term' credit ratings with SDG bent

Credit ratings agencies should be required to take a longer-term approach to assessing the credit quality of sovereign issuers, to account for climate risk and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a UN department has suggested.

Circulate Capital invests in plastics recycling firm

Verdane claims 'largest' growth equity impact fundraise

Oslo-based investor Verdane has claimed that its €300 million ($344 million) fundraise makes its growth equity impact fund the largest such investment vehicle in Europe to date.

Too many metrics?

Asset owners want clarity on impact metrics, according to GIIN research. Michael Hurley reports

PRI calls for human rights-linked sovereign bonds

The UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has urged its signatories to encourage countries to issue sustainability-linked bonds tied to human rights factors as part of a drive to incorporate human rights into investment decisions.

ISS: Nuclear, gas have no positive sustainability impact

Nuclear and gas energy generation - which the EU has proposed including in its taxonomy of sustainable activities - have "no net positive" sustainability impact, ISS ESG has said.