03/05/2021
SFDR Explained: Actions for Asset Managers and Investment Advisors
With increasing consumer and investor demand for more sustainable financial products and services, sustainability in the financial services sector is fast becoming a key regulatory priority worldwide.
03/05/2021
BIL partners with CANDRIAM for the development of its ESG services
The finance industry has a decisive role to play in chanelling investments that, as well as generating a return, will help in the pursuit of environmental and social goals.
03/05/2021
Net Zero Festival: MSCI and Schroders to partner with inaugural Net Zero Finance Summit
A number of complimentary tickets remain available for the online event, which kicks off with keynote sessions from Hiro Mizuno, special envoy on innovative finance and sustainable investments at the UN, and Nigel Topping, high level climate action champi
03/04/2021
Schroders will ensure that its low-carbon transformation is closely aligned with climate science.
03/04/2021
Fast forward to 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic has led to market volatility and industry-wide disruption, but one positive thing that has emerged from 2020 is a heightened focus on ESG.
03/03/2021
Cevian is currently invested in 15 European companies and manages the equivalent of about 14.3 billion Swiss francs ($15.6 billion).
03/03/2021
It aims to improve disclosures on the principal adverse impacts of investment decisions and on the integration of sustainability factors within financial products, while also stamping out so-called ‘greenwashing’ of ESG funds.
03/03/2021
Asset Servicing Solutions Support Launch and Distribution Strategy for US$2 Billion Sustainable Investment Manager
03/02/2021
The second measures ESG at a portfolio level and highlights how much the manager uses ESG as an integrated part of their investment process.
03/01/2021
Debt engineers tackle climate change with bonds to rewild land
Activists lobbying for securities that more explicitly protect the natural world, and they are likely to get a hearing from policymakers when the UN meets in coming months
03/01/2021
Investor demand for sustainable funds accelerated sharply in 2020
03/01/2021
Move to issue bonds to back clean energy projects comes ahead of UN summit
02/25/2021
Handelsbanken’s goal is to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases as soon as possible, and by 2040 at the latest.
02/25/2021
HSBC, Barclays challenged over bond linked to Vietnamese coal project
Legal experts say this could be just the first in a series of challenges to banks over indirect financing at odds with their climate commitments.
02/24/2021
Introduction of Transport Score sees significant shake-up of the top 30 cities
02/24/2021
Asset manager promises to set interim 2030 emissions reduction targets by the end of this year as it works to achieve net zero by mid-century
02/22/2021
The bank, which is due to reveal its annual results this week, faces more challenges than the impact of Covid-19 on profits
02/22/2021
Climate change presents financial risks to various participants in the financial sector.
02/22/2021
This will produce a portfolio with a higher overall ESG score and a materially lower carbon footprint.
02/22/2021
Investment Association warns it will flag inadequate reporting on global warming to asset managers