Graham Cooper

Articles by Graham Cooper

  • Erlandsson leaves AP4 for Granit Fonder

    15 May 2017

    Swedish asset management company Granit Fonder has hired Ulf Erlandsson as its new head of fixed income. He will take up his new post in August.

  • Standard Life plans impact investment funds

    10 May 2017

    UK asset manager Standard Life Investments hopes to launch global and UK-focussed impact investment funds this year.

  • Voluntary carbon market can beat 'life-threatening' challenges

    09 May 2017

    The voluntary carbon market "faces two life-threatening challenges", but they do not spell the end of the market, according to the Gold Standard, a specialist certification body.

  • Spanish government loses claim over renewables subsidy cuts

    08 May 2017

    Spain has been ordered to pay €128 million ($140 million) plus interest, to compensate two solar energy investors for losses incurred as a result of the government cutting its renewables subsidies.

  • Canada's NatureBank commits to $14m sustainable cocoa project

    08 May 2017

    NatureBank Asset Management has agreed a Limited Partnership (LP) with US firm Southern Harvest Partners and related companies, to invest $14 million into sustainable cocoa production in the Dominican Republic.

  • Innergex and Desjardins expand French wind portfolio

    08 May 2017

    Innergex Renewable Energy of Canada and the Desjardins Group pension plan have added a further three wind farms to their portfolio of wind energy assets in France.

  • PGGM commits €200m to rooftop solar

    04 May 2017

    Dutch investment manager PGGM has increased its commitment to clean energy by taking a €200 million ($218 million) stake in a portfolio of 38,000 rooftop solar systems in the US.

  • NRW Bank commits to buy green bonds

    03 May 2017

    NRW Bank, a regular issuer of green bonds, has committed to start buying in the market. It also plans to issue another green bond, of at least €500 million ($545 million), later this year, a spokesman told Environmental Finance.

  • EIB says its green bonds outperform in secondary market

    02 May 2017

    Climate Awareness Bonds (CABs) issued by the European Investment Bank (EIB) "have been outperforming regular EIB issuances" in the past few months, the bank said.

  • Impact investors turn to water stocks, says KBI

    02 May 2017

    Water is becoming "an almost intuitive" impact allocation for a growing number of investors, according to KBI Global Investors (KBIGI).