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Irish sustainable forestry fund completes €30m first close
27 April 2018A sustainable forestry investment fund has raised about €30 million ($36 million) at first close.
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Actiam backs third successive Shell climate resolution
27 April 2018Dutch asset manager Actiam criticised Shell for not doing enough to change its business strategy as it threw its weight behind a third successive climate-related shareholder resolution with the company.
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ERAFP calls for emerging market SRI bond fund managers
27 April 2018French pension fund ERAFP has called for tenders from prospective managers for an emerging market bond portfolio worth up to €300 million.
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UK pensions advised to pursue decarbonisation with climate risk checklist
26 April 2018A checklist for pension fund trustees to consider climate risk in their investments has been launched which encourages UK schemes to adopt targets for reducing carbon-intensive holdings and consider divestment.
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Green bond round-up, 25 April
25 April 2018More than $3.3 billion of green bonds have settled in the first three days of this week*, with announcements suggesting that a strong pipeline of issuance of green and social bonds can be expected in coming weeks.
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Deutsche Bank launches 'big data' tool to rate companies' ESG profile
25 April 2018A tool that uses 'big data' to rate 5,000 companies' performance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors has been launched by Deutsche Bank.
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Time is ripe for pensions to increase climate focus, says law firm
23 April 2018The "time is ripe" for pension fund trustees to move climate risk up their investment agenda, a report by law firm Pinsent Masons has said.
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Fixed income investors need more ESG products, says Japan's GPIF
20 April 2018Institutional investors are being constrained because of a lack of environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused products for fixed income investors, a report co-published by the GPIF has claimed.
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Norges Bank backs climate and water shareholder resolutions
20 April 2018The advisor to the world's largest sovereign wealth fund has thrown its weight behind climate-related shareholder resolutions with energy companies Imperial Oil and TransCanada.
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'Big and boring' pension funds need development finance price to drop, says PGGM
19 April 2018Development finance institutions (DFIs) aiming to meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals must work harder to create more projects and drive their price down if they are to attract large investors like pension funds, according to PGGM.