Michael Hurley

Articles by Michael Hurley

  • Green bonds round-up, 31 Oct 2018

    31 October 2018

    German utility EnBW has raised €500 million ($573 million) from its inaugural issue on the green bond market.

  • Willis Towers Watson pension scheme to shift equities investments to ESG

    31 October 2018

    Willis Towers Watson is to shift £740 million ($944 million) – half of the equities investments in its default master trust scheme – into environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies.

  • Boston Common backs ‘blue economy’ finance principles

    30 October 2018

    Boston Common Asset Management has added its name to the growing number of financial institutions that have endorsed a set of principles for investing to support the world’s oceans.

  • Pension funds grill major companies on climate lobbying

    29 October 2018

    A group of more than 50 major companies have been challenged on their approach to climate lobbying by investors with assets of about $2 trillion.

  • Asian asset owners and managers flagged for poor TCFD reporting

    26 October 2018

    Asset owners and asset managers in Asia are lagging far behind their regional peers in disclosure, a report examining the adoption of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) has found.

  • Green bonds round-up - 24 Oct - 17 new deals

    24 October 2018

    Royal Schiphol Group, the owner of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, has priced a green bond worth €500 million ($576 million), making it the first European airport to issue green-labelled notes.

  • Ceres preparing water stress test working group

    24 October 2018

    A working group to develop guidance on conducting stress testing and scenario analysis of water risk in investment portfolios is to be established by US non-profit Ceres.

  • Investors turning attention to deforestation risks, says Ceres

    23 October 2018

    Investors are increasingly engaging companies to better manage deforestation risks in their supply chains – an issue that has traditionally been overlooked, according to US-based non-profit Ceres.

  • Green Climate Fund commits $1bn to new projects

    22 October 2018

    Funding awards for a ‘world first’ developing market green bank and a controversial water project in oil-rich Bahrain have been revealed as part of the latest in the embattled Green Climate Fund (GCF)’s disbursals.

  • Paris rail project plans €31.5bn green bond programme

    22 October 2018

    The French state-owned company developing a rail project in Paris has laid out plans for a mammoth green bond issuance programme worth as much as €31.5 billion ($36 billion).