06/05/2023
Green and sustainable investing: why asset managers need clear ESG definitions to aid fund sales, quash greenwashing
Company has had to hire 180 analysts to identify comparison baselines and evaluate portfolio companies’ ESG performance
Planet SOS
06/05/2023
IQ-EQ announces strategic ESG alliance with Novata
Together, IQ-EQ and Novata will help portfolio companies report the highest quality data to investors and ultimately drive positive sustainable change.
06/01/2023
Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management plots ‘dark green’ fund after mass downgrades
Swiss asset manager is the latest signatory of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative
05/31/2023
How to invest in nature
The theme for Earth Day 2023 was Invest in our planet, and on 22 May we marked Biodiversity Day.
05/31/2023
Brown Advisory launches sustainable value fund
The $131bn (€122bn) firm aims to take a different approach to value, in order to fill the unmet opportunity they see in the market.
05/31/2023
Cazenove Capital publishes 2022 Sustainability and Impact Reports
This is the third year that Cazenove Capital has provided detailed sustainability and impact reporting for its flagship sustainable funds.
05/30/2023
ESG Regulation for Real Estate
Real Estate investments have long been part of a diverse portfolio allocation for institutional investors.
05/30/2023
Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management joins Net Zero Asset Managers
The Swiss group joins some 300 signatories to the initiative representing about €60tn in AUM with the ambition to reach net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner.
05/25/2023
The opportunities of the environmental transition
This swift rise has exposed a whole series of underlying vulnerabilities that are now coming to light.
05/22/2023
How to invest for a better climate
Climate investments are not just investments in renewable energy production, but in various technologies and solutions that enable a transition to a low-carbon economy.
05/19/2023
Meet our ESG experts: Claire Coustar
She represents Deutsche Bank in the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and the Net Zero Banking Alliance.
05/19/2023
Hydrogen and net zero – which ambitions are realistic, and which are less so?
Hydrogen is not an energy source in itself, but more a means of transmitting or storing energy.
05/18/2023
IMAS launches sustainability training classes for AM industry
The courses are available on the Investment Management Association of Singapore’s iLearn platform.
05/16/2023
Mirova & Robeco lead initiative to develop global database of avoided emissions factors and associated company-level avoided emissions
Estimates of the investment required to meet global net-zero emissions by 2050
05/15/2023
Shear surprise: unexpected profit pools as our economy goes electric
The rest come from day-to-day operations
05/12/2023
BNP Paribas details and strengthens its energy transition ambitions
It is one of BNP Paribas’ strategic priorities to make a significant contribution to the financing of low-carbon energies, mainly renewables, in order to support the broader economy’s transition away from fossil fuels.
05/10/2023
From hot sand to liquid air – 5 early stages energy storage solutions that could help underpin the electric economy
With renewable power now outcompeting fossil fuels on price, this rapid growth looks set to continue.
05/10/2023
Sustainable Funding Conditions For Clean Energy Projects
The wider built environment sector including investors and financiers are following suit with ethical lending requirements and strategies becoming more mainstream
05/04/2023
Building the economy of tomorrow: clean energy brings exponential growth
At Lombard Odier’s recent sustainable finance leadership course, in partnership with the University of Oxford, thought leaders from across academia and finance gathered to explore both the science and the economics of the environmental transition.
04/26/2023
“Sustainable ETFs are financial instruments with a bright future”
The SFDR also obliges asset managers to be more transparent