All United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) articles
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NewsImpact 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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NewsUK 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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AnalysisTrade 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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NewsFinancial 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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FeaturesImpact 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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NewsTNO 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
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NewsUK roundup: Small DC schemes fail to meet value expectations
Plus: Border to Coast sets up engagement programme; Risk sharing could provide an age-old solution, says Hymans Robertson; Impact Cubed launches SDG dataset
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Green bonds require better coordination for real impact
Worth approximately $128.3trn (€117trn), the global bond market could add billions to the global effort to reach the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs). Yet only a fraction of the market currently consists of green, social and sustainability (GSS) bonds, and of that very little is being issued in developing countries. In 2022, annual GSS bond issuances stood at under 10% of overall bonds and only 13% of them came from entities in developing countries, a number that dwindles to around 5% when excluding issuers from China.
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AnalysisAnalysis: German states realign €30bn pension fund assets to stricter ESG standards
Four German states have recently revised their sustainable investment strategies, sticking to stricter ESG rules
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NewsComPlan to look at UN SDGs in private equity, debt investments
The scheme included physical and transitional climate risks in an ALM analysis for the first time last year
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NewsPMT earmarks €10bn for impact investing by 2030
The goal means the Dutch metals industry scheme will have to find €8bn worth of impact investments in the next eight years
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NewsResearch: Financial sector’s approach to tackling climate change is fragmented
First benchmark developed by the WBA that focuses on financial institutions, including asset owners, banks, asset managers and insurers
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NewsAustrian Treasury plans commercial paper issuance to fund green projects
Austria raises €1bn in first issuance of green treasury bill
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NewsDanica sees 15% shift into sustainable pension since Ukraine invasion
War in Ukraine has made a number of sustainability issues very concrete and current, says Danish pension provider
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NewsDanica pumps DKK1bn into tailored BlackRock impact strategy
BlackRock predicts significant capital reallocations still to come as result of transition to CO2 neutrality
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NewsDWS designs engagement policy to track outcomes
The asset manager will define three clusters of engagement: strategic, focus and core
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NewsSwedish pension majors join forces to tackle corruption
AP1, Folksam, SEB IM and Skandia form new investor forum with NGO Transparency International
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NewsOECD calls for regs easing to help PFs invest in developing countries
Important to ensure institutional investment in developing countries is sustainable – through impact investment policies, says report
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NewsNordic pension funds behind much of Trill Impact’s €900m PE fundraising
Nordea L&P is anchor investor in Nordic firm’s first impact mid-market buyout fund; AP6, AP4, Velliv among advisory panel members
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NewsNasdaq partners with seven ESG/impact data providers for new platform
The new platform aims to support investors in their sustainable investment decisions
