Michael Hurley

Articles by Michael Hurley

  • Large asset owners deterred by lack of quality impact strategies - NNIP survey

    17 February 2020

    Asset managers have been urged to develop more sophisticated impact investment strategies, after a survey by NN Investment Partners revealed that many large Nordic asset owners are interested in the market but are unconvinced by a lack of quality and scale of existing impact strategies.

  • Newton eyes up social impact opportunities

    14 February 2020

    Newton Investment Management is preparing to launch environmentally-themed funds this year, and is considering how it can muscle in on the impact investing space, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • New York State Common makes $800m climate-themed investments

    14 February 2020

    The New York State Common Retirement Fund has made $800 million in climate-themed investments so far in 2020.

  • KKR closes $1.3bn impact fund

    12 February 2020

    New York-based KKR has reached a final close on its $1.3 billion impact fund.

  • UK poised to require TCFD-style reporting from pension funds

    12 February 2020

    The UK is set to become the first country to require pension funds to report in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

  • Ecosystem Investment Partners closes $455m wetlands fund

    11 February 2020

    Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP) has hit its hard cap of $454.5 million at final close of its fourth fund.

  • NNIP launches €405m impact equity funds

    11 February 2020

    NN Investment Partners has launched three thematic impact equity funds designed to contribute to 14 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • Harvard publishes framework to measure impact of company products

    10 February 2020

    A framework for "systematic measurement of product impact in monetary terms" has been published by Harvard Business School.

  • US SIF makes case for gender equality engagement

    10 February 2020

    Institutional investors have been encouraged to develop more robust engagement practices and consider developing financial products to capture the economic benefits of contributing to gender equality.

  • The EU's sustainable finance action plan: a progress report

    07 February 2020

    Two years into the Commission's ambitious plan to hardwire sustainability into the financial system, Michael Hurley examines the state of play