Peter Cripps

Articles by Peter Cripps

  • Investor Agenda finds $32trn of backing

    13 September 2018

    Investors with a combined $32 trillion in assets have signed up to an initiative to step up action on climate change.

  • Sustainalytics launches 'gamechanging' ESG risk ratings

    12 September 2018

    Sustainalytics has launched a new risk ratings system it says will allow investors to better assess the materiality of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.

  • Green bond comment, September 2018: Land of the rising green bond

    05 September 2018

    A burst of issues from Asia and Australia in August could be the sign of a greater willingness from companies in the region to issue green, social or sustainability bonds.

  • Sustainability 'not a significant influence' for most institutional investors

    03 September 2018

    Little more than a quarter of investors say that sustainability factors have a significant role in their investment decision making.

  • Pictet launches 'first' smart city themed fund

    31 August 2018

    Pictet has launched what it claims to be the first fund targeting the theme of smart cities.

  • Cubico hopes to return to acquisition trail this year

    30 August 2018

    It has been a year of consolidation but Stephen Riley says the firm is ready to 'go for growth' again. Peter Cripps reports

  • GIG claims success as it spreads its wings

    15 August 2018

    The Green Investment Group has had a successful first year in the private sector, with significant expansion overseas, Ed Northam tells Peter Cripps.

  • California signs Green Bond Pledge

    08 August 2018

    California has become the first state to sign a pledge to issue green bonds to fund infrastructure projects.

  • Five ways to scale up California green bond market, suggested by report

    07 August 2018

    Credit enhancements, the creation of a green bond insurance programme, and setting up a 'green bond bank' are ways in which California can help scale up the green municipal bond market, according to a report.

  • FSFL becomes biggest solar yieldco in UK

    06 August 2018

    Foresight Solar Fund Limited (FSFL) has completed the acquisition of a portfolio of solar farms with a combined generating capacity of 114MW, in a deal that makes it the largest of the solar-focused UK-listed yieldcos.