Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) has today expanded its green bond range with the launch of a new Article 9 fund. The Luxembourg-domiciled Nikko AM Global Green Bond UCITS fund provides investors access to green and sustainability bonds through a diversified and actively managed portfolio. It will invest in a broader investment universe beyond sovereign, … Read more
What should a biodiversity fund look like? It’s a question that’s going to attract increasing attention with the recent Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures hopefully opening the door to better data from companies on their impact on nature (or at the very least, nature’s impact on them). The number of mutual and exchange-traded funds focused … Read more
Last month’s launch of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) represents a significant milestone for risk management and opportunity that perhaps couldn’t have been envisaged just three years ago. This ground-breaking initiative, akin to the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), is likely to transform the way investors assess and manage risks associated … Read more
HSBC Asset Management has added to its suite of thematic ETF offerings with the launch of its Climate Technology ETF, in partnership with index provider Nasdaq. The HSBC Nasdaq Global Climate Tech UCITS ETF will track the Nasdaq CTA Global Climate Technology Index, aiming to offer investors broad exposure to the climate technology ecosystem through … Read more
Legal & General Group’s alternative asset platform, Legal & General Capital (LGC), has hired Alex Wharton as managing director for distribution and partnerships. Wharton is tasked with supporting the delivery of LGC’s strategic growth, enabling purpose-driven capital partners searching for private markets solutions to invest alongside LGC in alternative asset classes and partnerships that drive … Read more
A new era of ESG measures are areas at the top of the agenda at asset manager Allianz Global Investors (Allianz GI), who recently outlined their sustainability journey and thoughts for the future at a conference. Alongside impact investing, transition finance, rising climate costs and the role of sovereign funds, Allianz GI’s team expressed interest … Read more
The Finance for Biodiversity (FfB) Foundation has published a guide for financial institutions, explaining how financial institutions can manage biodiversity and climate nexus in their investments and lending. The guide, titled Unlocking the biodiversity-climate nexus, which was presented at the European Business and Nature Summit (EBNS) in Milan on the 11-12 October, was written by … Read more
The headlines rarely make for comfortable reading, whatever your particular interest, but for those of us who worry constantly about climate change the latest reports on September’s weather, and July’s, and August’s, is hard to digest. Yet again another set of records for each month. What stood out about September’s weather is that the jump is … Read more
Just last month, Hong Kong was hit by an exceptionally heavy rainstorm, which prompted the government to issue the Black Rain warning signal for a record breaking 16 hours. Authorities said that more than 158 millimetres of rainfall was recorded by the Hong Kong Observatory in the hour after the warning was raised, the highest … Read more
The World Investment Forum 2023 brings together over 8,000 participants, heads of state, government ministers, sovereign wealth fund managers, private sector executives, stock exchanges, media, academics, investment treaty negotiators and heads of international organizations in more than 130 events to revitalize investments to meet development needs. Stakes are high as heads of state, more than … Read more