Robeco has launched its first Article 9 sustainable climate high yield fund. The Climate Global High Yield Bonds strategy is aimed at actively lowering carbon footprints via high yield investments, measured against a Paris-Aligned Benchmark by Solactive. The strategy uses the potential sustainability impact of asset owners, from a bondholder’s perspective. It is suitable for … Read more
Investors lack understanding and conviction a ‘just transition’ to a low carbon economy will be achieved, a Fidelity survey has found. The survey, published in partnership with Coalition Greenwich, sought the opinions of over 120 institutional and intermediary investors to provide a deep dive into the awareness and appetite for a just transition. It found … Read more
In the recent G7 Meeting on Women’s Empowerment, every representative was a woman bar one: Japan. The awkward photo-op that followed the meeting basically sums up the common perception that Japan is behind its peers when it comes to gender equality. In 2023, Japan was ranked 125th out of 148 in the Gender Gap Index, … Read more
Climate Asset Management – the HSBC and Pollination joint venture – has appointed Andrea Abrahams to chair its Nature Based Carbon Fund investment committee. Abrahams is managing director of voluntary carbon markets at the International Emissions Trading Association and has experience driving strategic decarbonisation programmes for global organisations and NGOs. The announcement comes as the … Read more
Getting the finance industry to step up was a key crowning achievement of COP26, according to Chris Skidmore MP, former minister and chair of the UK Net Zero Review, who joins the ESG Out Loud podcast today. Nevertheless, the government must do more and faster in order to give investors confidence. In January this year … Read more
In this new series for ESG Clarity Asia, we’ll be exploring the opportunities and challenges for sustainable fund selectors in each country in Asia and highlighting the regulation and policy that could affect them. Changes sustainable fund selectors should know about In December last year parliament passed the ECA Amendment Bill with the aim of … Read more
Investors must begin to engage with apparel companies and their stakeholders to ensure they start to measure and address the significant challenges of physical climate impacts on workers and business models, Angus Bauer, head of sustainable investment research at Schroders, has said. Analysis by Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute and Schroders has found extreme heat … Read more
The summer months can be a good time for reflection and to create new resolve – let’s face it, we all still adhere to the academic calendar. This year in UK the Treasury Committee set the topic for review, Sexism in the City, which launched in July. Its call for evidence, which City Hive has contributed … Read more
Quilter Cheviot has launched a year long investment management internship programme for young people wanting a career in wealth management. The wealth manager received more than 700 applications for the programme, and has enrolled four interns in the firm’s London office, as well as two interns in its Birmingham office. University degrees were not a … Read more
Nearly three-quarters (71%) of global institutions and professional investors are planning to increase their allocations to impact investing solutions over the next three years, according to a global survey from Vontobel. Additionally, while European investors continue to lead in demand for solutions, investors in Asia are planning to catch up quickly, with 92% planning to … Read more