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Amundi focuses on green private credit market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... investment program. The program will support the creation of several funds that will invest in green high yield corporate bonds, green private debt and green securitised debt. The EIB has made an initial commitment of EUR 60 million. "What we want to ...

Foresight Group launches Foresight Renwable Energy Income Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has developed a sustainability framework that has been certified by the Climate Bonds Initiative. That framework is the basis of the fund, which will pool capital into a series of CBI-certified loans ...

Amundi launches Amundi Funds Multi-Asset Sustainable Future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... investing across a broad range of fixed income assets mainly in euro denominated investment grade corporate and government bonds and global equities, which can consist of up to 40% of portfolio allocation. Amundi also applies eSG factors with their fundamental ...

Australia's green bond issuance tops $15 billion: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
Australia issued $15.6 billion in green bonds as of the end of June, yet there is a pipeline of more than 400 green infrastructure investment projects, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative. Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative The Climate ...

QIC Shopping Centre Fund issues $300m certified green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... QIC Shopping Centre Fund (QSCF) has issued a AU$300 million Climate Bond-certified green bond. Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative Proceeds of the bond will fund capital expenditure associated with its asset development and sustainability objectives ...

AIIB, Aberdeen Standard Investments form strategic partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019  |  NEWS
... manage the US$500 million AIIB Asia ESG Enhanced Credit Managed Portfolio, primarily made up of Asian infrastructure related bonds including both green and unlabelled issuances, with ESG factors "fully integrated in the investment process and portfolio ...

Global issuance of green bonds tops $100 billion to date in 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
More than US$100 billion in green bonds has been issued in the first half of 2019, according to the Climate Bond Initiative. Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative "This is the first time this key milestone has been reached in the first half the ...

NSW government to issue a second Sustainability & Social Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... be issued by NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp) in the second half of 2019 and will complement the existing general-purpose bonds already issued by TCorp. Sustainability Bonds are expected to continue to gain momentum as governments, corporations and investors ...

Insight Investment applies traffic light analysis to green, impact bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
Global asset manager Insight Investment has applied a traffic light score to impact bonds, and found that "many of the instruments coming to market fall short of minimum standards for sustainability." Josh Kendall, senior ESG analyst, Insight Investment ...

CEFC invests $30m in Woolworths Group green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... sustainability strategy. Woolworths recently issued its Green Bond Framework and noted that it would be the first issuer of Green Bonds under the new Climate Bonds Initiative low-carbon buildings criteria for supermarkets. CBI's Climate Bonds Standard ...