Nick Roumpis

Articles by Nick Roumpis

  • Record-breaking Impax sees opportunities in electric cars and big data

    29 November 2017

    Impax Asset Management is eyeing opportunities in the automotive sector and big data after reporting record inflows for the year ended 30 September.

  • Macpherson leaves S&P Global for Sustineri

    28 November 2017

    Sustineri has poached S&P Global Ratings' head of environmental, social and governance (ESG) research and analysis Martina Macpherson, who is joining the boutique advisory firm as a partner.

  • IIGCC urges EU to vote for "appropriate" clean energy framework

    27 November 2017

    Investors managing assets worth more than €21 trillion ($25 trillion) have called on European leaders to introduce "an appropriate policy framework" on the continent's long-term decarbonisation plan.

  • UBS finds fresh evidence that sustainability can boost performance

    27 November 2017

    UBS has found fresh evidence that sustainability factors can enhance returns, adding that large asset managers are "uniquely positioned" to convince asset owners that incorporating sustainability is in line with their fiduciary duty.

  • SDGs 'uproar' opens the door for more impact investing, AXA IM says

    24 November 2017

    The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are causing "uproar" in the world of responsible investment and create a doorway to more impact investing, AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) says.

  • Climate risk increasingly important for ratings, says S&P

    24 November 2017

    Corporate credit ratings are increasingly impacted by environmental and climate (E&C) concerns, S&P Global Ratings claims in its latest report.

  • Zurich raises impact investment commitment to $5bn

    23 November 2017

    Zurich Insurance Group has more than doubled its impact investment target to $5 billion, as it broadens its remit beyond green bonds.

  • Deforestation threatens tens of billions in stranded assets

    22 November 2017

    Billions of dollars of investments risk becoming stranded assets if companies do not take sufficient action to address deforestation risks, environmental non-profit CDP has warned.

  • Insurance giant Allianz on 'inserting ESG into its DNA'

    21 November 2017

    Allianz has divested from coal companies but has come under fire for continuing to insure the sector. Nick Roumpis reports

  • COP23 makes progress but no draft text emerges

    20 November 2017

    United Nations (UN) climate talks in Bonn over the past two weeks made modest progress towards writing a "rulebook" for how to achieve the Paris Agreement, but no draft negotiating text was finalised.