All green bonds articles
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NewsECB sets up climate change centre, to invest in new BIS green bond fund
ECB also reveals it is exploring a low carbon benchmark move for fixed income investments in the staff pension fund
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Mandate roundup: Swiss scheme tenders green bonds
Plus: Scottish Enterprise awards admin, actuary and investment consulting mandates
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Green benefits from forestry, RE could be lost under EC plan, groups warn
AMF warns EU taxonomy criteria could confound intentions for real estate, hydropower, forestry
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ESG roundup: NN IP sees €300bn green bond issuance next year
Plus: GPIF allocates to gender-diversity index; Denmark’s Sampension adds 79 stocks to blacklist
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Sweden’s Kåpan ups green bond weighting, expands fossils strategy
Swedish government employees’ pension fund says it bolstered sustainability in asset classes as well as overall operations this year
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Folksam CEO says major climate focus needed in post-coronavirus reboot
Ylva Wessén sees opportunity to turn crisis around and be better equipped for future
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BVI recommends new EU vehicle for ESG impact investing
The EIF would invest in long-term projects through European impact bonds, equity and debt instruments issued by the European Commission
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Commission to use rescue plan to create ‘European yield curve’
‘In addition to issuing bonds with a maturity of up to 30 years, there will also be an emphasis on the short end’
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Climate roundup: LGIM readies Paris-alignment solutions after model work
LGIM’s Nick Stansbury excited to have cracked an ‘incredibly challenging problem’
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ECB makes ‘exceptional exception’ for sustainability-linked bonds
ECB to accept SLBs as collateral and as eligible for buying under its asset purchase programmes
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ESG roundup: Amundi recommends adding ‘improvers’
Plus: Germany’s inaugural green bond; Passive sustainable funds update; SASB updating ‘foundational’ standard-setting documents; Cbus joins UN Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance
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Germany green bond-linked spending spans real, intangible assets
Federal government has unveiled the framework for its upcoming inaugural green bond issuance
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Germany commits to sustainable capital market with green bonds plan
The government will issue ‘twin bonds’, green bonds and conventional bonds, with a 10-year maturity and an identical coupon of 0%
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Returns to ESG investing - looking for the light
A fundamental question for investors is whether ESG investment involves a tradeoff, a combination of environmental philanthropy and reduced financial returns, or whether ESG investment will simply deliver the best returns to investors.
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BTPS keen for big voice in ESG/fixed income debate, says CEO
Credit rating agencies should step up their game on ESG, Nilsson says
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Industriens reshapes largest bond mandate into €1.2bn ESG fund
PIMCO tailors portfolio, only using issuers with low environmental impact, high social responsibility, healthy governance culture
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ESG roundup: EU urged to use bank rules to end ‘doom loop’
Plus: Insight Investment, EFRAG Reporting Lab, Scientific Beta, Candriam, Grantham Research Institute, World Benchmarking Alliance
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Sampension boosted green bond investments by DKK300m in 2020
Danish occupational pension provider sees pickup in green bond issuance after pandemic-linked dip
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HSBC, IFC raise $320m extra for EM real economy green bond fund
European occupational pension funds and insurance companies commit to ‘impact solution’
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ICMA issues definitions in sustainable finance terminology move
Association flags problematic use of some terms ‘as if they were interchangeable’
