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Funds Europe: Swiss Life Asset Managers has announced the successful first close of its value-add infrastructure fund, Swiss Life Funds (LUX) ESG Global Infrastructure Opportunities Growth II, with over €560 million in capital commitments.
XM: HanETF and Sprott Asset Management jointly launched an exchange-traded fund in Europe that tracks copper miners with a lower carbon footprint, in what will be their third fund to be unveiled togetherin the last two years.
Funds Europe: European companies with validated science-based emissions reduction targets tend to have higher EU Taxonomy capital expenditure alignment, a study found.
GreenBiz: Much has been made of whether and how the stock market can meaningfully support climate action. Because most transactions occur in the secondary market, trading shares of listed companies appears rather removed from the "real" economy, where tangible decarbonization takes place.
Funds Europe: Asset manager Columbia Threadneedle Investments has launched the CT (Lux) Global Social Bond fund, aiming to use the bond market to target positive social outcomes globally.
ESG Clarity: Longstanding employees in the financial services sector say diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has deteriorated in the past 12 months, according to a survey.
BNN Bloomberg: In recent years, many of the world’s biggest banks have published reports chronicling the vast sums they say they’re channeling into environmental and social activities.
Funds Europe: ESG underperformance last year is seen by pension funds as a “temporary setback”, and they intend to pursue investment strategies that seek environmental and social outcomes while also making money, research suggests.
ESG Clarity: “This is an important moment in our industry’s efforts to build greater confidence and trust among retail investors in the UK’s evolving sustainable investing market,” said James Alexander, chief executive of UKSIF, echoing the sentiments and general positivity among the investment community in the wake of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launching their much-anticipated Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR).
GreenBiz: Global government and private sector leaders are descending on Dubai as COP28 kicks off. Finding a consensus on how to fix climate finance is high on the conference agenda.
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