Analysis

• Growing investment opportunity driving family offices' shift to impact

  16 April 2021

  Family office interest in making investments that target positive social or environmental outcomes is on the rise, Michael Hurley writes

  

• The low-carbon pathway

  15 April 2021

  Governments across the world are increasingly responding to the climate crisis by adopting policies and market mechanisms to help reduce emissions, writes Mamadou-Abou Sarr

  

• Social bond fund growth is coming - but perhaps not imminently

  14 April 2021

  After social bond issuance jumped nine-fold in 2020, attention is increasingly turning to the lack of dedicated social bond funds. They are expected to arrive, but perhaps not immediately. Ahren Lester reports

  

• 'Transition' firms preferring sustainability-linked over transition bonds

  12 April 2021

  Sustainability-linked bonds are proving more popular for carbon-intensive issuers than transition bonds, and experts are worried the 'transition' label is adding unnecessary confusion in the market. Ahren Lester and Christopher Marchant report

  

• Blue finance lags behind its green cousin — but the tide is turning

  09 April 2021

  With a compelling investment case based on both the mitigation of risk and maximisation of opportunity, a surge of investment in the oceans should be expected, argues Darian McBain

  

• What role can investors play in protecting global biodiversity?

  08 April 2021

  Investors have a fiduciary duty to integrate biodiversity-related risks and opportunities into their overall assessment of a company's material risks, argues Sophie Lawrence

  

• Green bond comment, April 2021: Central banks and a growing 'greenium'

  07 April 2021

  With central banks increasingly active in the green bond market, should they shoulder the responsibility to moderate green bond valuations, Michael Hurley asks

  

• The shifting regulatory landscape of ESG

  07 April 2021

  There are numerous ESG regulations in Europe that firms need to know about, says Karan Kapoor

  

• Humanitarian & resilience investing: unlocking capital for a little known area of impact

  25 March 2021

  Addressing data gaps is key to catalysing impactful humanitarian and resilience investments, writes Katherine Garrett-Cox

  

• Tilting markets towards material nature

  24 March 2021

  Simon Zadek outlines a six-part framework for reshaping markets and economies in ways that reward nature-friendly, and penalise nature-destroying, investments.