All United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) articles
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News
Reputational disaster or ‘badge of honour’? Fund managers split over Aviva’s SFDR fine
Asset manager is first to face enforcement under the rules, but peers are divided on what it means
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News
Danish quartet invests €214m in bonds targeting UN goals
PFA, PKA, P+ and PenSam anchor new loss-guaranteed fund alongside government agency, with Danish SDG Investment Fund II aiming to raise DKK5bn in all
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News
Asset owners urge managers to rethink sustainability to avoid emerging market divestment
By 2050, six of the seven largest economies in the world are projected to be emerging markets and developing economies, says WBA
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Analysis
Investment strategy: how one Dutch pension fund democratised its ESG process
Pensioenfonds Detailhandel’s groundbreaking attempt to democratise its investment process is just one development in this growing trend
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Interviews
KPN Pensioenfonds: Active investors by conviction
Caspar Vlaar and Jaap van Dam of KPN Pensioenfonds talk to Tjibbe Hoekstra about the Dutch fund’s belief in active investing, its venture into private markets and its impact strategy
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Analysis
Development banks need to be more transparent to mobilise private capital
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have caught the imagination of impact-oriented investors, as achieving them requires mobilisation of private capital on a massive scale. However, taking on the risks associated with many of the SDG-oriented investment goals is too much to bear for many private investors.
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News
PFZW reports underperformance of SDG investments
Management fees for the Dutch healthcare scheme’s actively managed SDG equity mandate are also significantly higher
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: The cost of caution
In the world of sustainable finance policy, ‘billions to trillions’ has become the rallying cry of efforts to finance the UN’s SDGs and tackle climate change
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News
KPA Pension, Folksam, invest in early-stage climate solutions firms
Swedish pensions and insurance group puts €45m into oversubscribed Norrsken Venture Capital Fund II
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News
ESMA study finds SDG-labelled investment funds risk ‘impact washing’
Watchdog assessed 187 funds and found SDG claims did not correspond with contribution to goals
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News
Mismatch between Dutch funds’ SDG demands and investment opportunities
Bonds that finance projects that contribute to SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), Life below Water and Life on Land (SDGs 14 and 15) are especially hard to find
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News
Skandia stows $100m in Dutch-backed sustainability blended-finance fund
Swedish pensions firm praises ‘innovative’ structure of SDG Loan Fund for easing flow of institutional money to developing countries
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Impact Disclosure Taskforce created in bid to scale financing of UN SDGs
Guidance to be drafted with aim of helping corporates and sovereign entities provide disclosures helpful for accessing pools of capital
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UK pensions minister urged to encourage schemes to invest in sustainability
LCP and Pensions for Purpose’s open letter urges pensions minister Laura Trott to encourage pension schemes to invest more in areas that drive forward sustainability goals
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Analysis
Trade finance – a sustainable asset class for institutional investors?
Trade financing, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in an analysis from September* “is critical for enabling international commerce and driving international development and poverty reduction”.
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News
Robeco broadens access to sustainable investing data
Asset manager is now granting access to the public
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News
Financial performance linked with portfolio companies’ sustainability efforts, study finds
Researchers identified 900,000 ways of supporting the SDGs, but some drove performance more than others
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News
PRI in Person: Sparking global debate on sustainable finance values
This year’s PRI in Person began with a song
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Features
Impact investment: How change theory can boost key messages
Simply aligning an investment with one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) does not always convince individuals about the impact of an investment. Communicating about change can help.
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News
TNO scheme switches to Paris-Aligned Benchmark for developed equities
The fund is one of two seed investors in the new BlackRock Developed World Paris-Aligned Climate Index Fund