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QBE commits minimum $100m to impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... QBE has also invested in the The Benevolent Society Social Benefit Bond in New South Wales, and has also invested in green bonds, such as the World Bank's IFC Green Bond, White said. QBE acknowledged that as impact investing is still in a nascent stage ...

CEFC makes its 10th investment in large-scale wind farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... Queensland, Victoria and South Australia. The CEFC has also indirectly invested in wind projects via its commitments to green bonds and equity funds. Since the CEFC began investing in 2013, a total of 44 wind projects have been built or reached financial ...

ESG analysis important to emerging market credit: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... SDGs targets, and companies with more than 25% of revenue associated with SDG targets. "There are opportunities with green bonds, and we have been corresponding with banks around the world expressing our desire for more green bonds," Kibble said. "If ...

Green Bond Pledge launched to increase use of green bond finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) since 2003. They currently have almost â,¬1 billion invested in green bonds and launched a new â,¬100 million fund late 2017, currently valued at â,¬133 million, the Climate Bonds Initiative ...

Green bond issuance from China reached US$37.1 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... China Central Depository and Clearing Co. Ltd (CCDC). Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative During 20178, 118 green bonds were issued during 2017 - 113 onshore, five offshore. Of the US$37.1 billion in issuance, 61% were aligned with international ...

Willis Towers Watsons joins Climate Bonds Partners Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... Initiative The Climate Bonds Partners Program is designed to support the development of the global market for climate and green bonds through three paths: "work to shift investment to rapidly delivering a low-carbon and climate resilient economy; participate ...

ESG integration comes into its own in fixed income portfolios: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  SUNDAY, 19 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... Australia. Dann notes that it was a two-year process for Queensland Treasury Corporation, going from learning about how green bonds are designed to actual issuance. Dann noted that Queensland Treasury Corporation did a week-long roadshow for the green ...

Climate Bonds Initiative analyses bond issuance from second quarter 2017

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... Initiative has released their second Green Bond Pricing in the Primary Market report analysing the performance of green bonds at issue April-June 2017. Climate Bonds Initiative noted that more than one hundred labelled green bonds were issued during ...

IGCC survey finds institutional investors seeking to increase low-carbon investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... shows is that people are trying to find ways to go around blockages thrown up by regulatory uncertainty,." Similarly, green bonds are also strongly represented as low-carbon investment strategies, which the report suggests "may also be a reflection of ...

Climate-aligned bond universe jumps to US$895 billion: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... HSBC, says the US$895 billion figure is comprised of unlabelled climate-aligned bonds at $674 billion and labelled green bonds at $221 billion. "We're making a start on green finance," said Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds CEO. "But banks, corporates and governments ...