Joe Walsh

• KKR's Global Impact Fund exceeds $1bn

  12 August 2019

  Private equity giant KKR has raised more than $1 billion for its Global Impact Fund. The firm did not disclose how much the fund is targeting or when it will close.

• Lekela reaches $330m close on 250MW Egyptian wind project

  08 August 2019

  Renewables platform Lekela Power has reached financial close of its 250MW wind project in Egypt, raising $330 million.

• Moody's upsizes its 2019 green bond prediction to more than $200bn

  08 August 2019

  Moody's predicts green bond issuance to exceed $200 billion this year, following a record-breaking second quarter and first half of the year. It had earlier predicted the market to hit $200 billion in 2019.

• Bonds round-up: BART, KfW, San Diego, Mitsui, IBRD, EDC, Ottawa

  07 August 2019

  San Francisco BART raises $644m, KfW issues its first HK$ denominated green bond and more

• Lombard Odier hires Kaminker

  07 August 2019

  Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) has recruited Christopher Kaminker for the newly created role of head of sustainable investment research & strategy.

• KGAL exits five Spanish solar farms

  06 August 2019

  German investment manager KGAL has sold two solar farms in Spain to Helia Renovables II, a fund managed by Spanish renewables investor Plenium Partners Asset Management, and will sell a further three to it in the last quarter of the year. The price of the sales was not disclosed.

• Marfrig's sustainable cattle bond attracts new ESG investors

  05 August 2019

  Beef producer Marfrig Global Foods was able to attract additional environmental, social and governance (ESG) investors for its $500 million Sustainable Transition Bond issued earlier this week.

• People Moves: Citi, BlackRock, ClientEarth

  02 August 2019

  Eckhart retires from Citi, O'Flynn appointed BAI Head of Sustainable Investing and more

• BlackRock loses $90.4bn from failing to spot stranded asset risks, says IEEFA

  01 August 2019

  The world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, has seen $90.4 billion knocked off the value of its listed equities holdings over the last decade because it failed to address stranded asset risk in the fossil fuel industry, according to a report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).

• Beef giant issues controversial Sustainable Transition Bond Framework

  31 July 2019

  The world's second largest beef producer, Marfrig Global Foods, has issued a controversial Sustainable Transition Bond Framework for the purchase of cattle.