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Insight Investment applies traffic light analysis to green, impact bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... interests of the entities issuing them, said Insight. Insight applies these standards to sovereign as well as corporate bonds, Kendall noted. "We've evaluated Ireland, Poland, France, and the Netherlands, and their green bonds, and in certain situation ...

Vision Super publishes Corporate Responsibility report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... their holdings towards those benchmarks. Vision Super has also decreased the carbon intensity in their Australian corporate bonds portfolio. "We continued to manage carbon intensity downwards by appointing a manager without fossil fuel exposure in its ...

Climate Bonds Initiative analyses disclosure of use of proceeds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... sub-sovereigns and asset-backed securities have lower rates of reporting. The report noted that "of the 30% of corporate bonds for which reporting was not found, almost a third are private placements. Taking private placements out of the whole dataset ...

PIMCO launches ESG Global Bond Fund in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... three pillars - exclusion, evaluation and engagement. The fund vests in "a range of sovereign and investment grade corporate bonds from around the world," the fund manager said. The fund is managed by a team led by Andrew Balls, managing director and ...

Climate Bonds Initiative to release V2.0 standards this month

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... certification of labelled climate bonds and green bonds comes in concert with the diversification the issuer base, as corporate bonds join the multilateral banking issuance Fowler said. "The early stage of this market were characterised by issuers who ...

CFSGAM reports on transparency, stewardship of assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... is incorrect - it depends on the philosophy of the team and their investment process," Berrutti said. "In the corporate bonds space, the fixed income team has incorporated it in a very smart way, because the ESG analysis is reflected in the internal ...

Climate Bonds Initiative looks to China's green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... project bonds; corporate tax credits to interest earned on green enterprise bonds from state owned enterprises, corporate bonds, and medium-term notes. "We make a series of recommendations that incentivise and encourage growth," Kidney said. "For example ...

INCR working group calls for green bond definitions, framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... and to bother with. Issuers have to decide that it's worth the trouble when it's not hard to sell plain vanilla corporate bonds because the yields on government bonds are so low. The issuers don't have to issue a green bond to sell a bond, so there has ...

Altius Asset Management launches sustainable bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Altius Sustainable Bond fund is a diversified fixed interest portfolio made up of government, semi-government and corporate bonds that conform to Altius's sustainability policy. The fund screens out bonds from issuers whose primary business activity ...

oekom research: ESG ratings improve bond performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
Corporate bonds with better sustainability performance and ratings have a higher equity ratio, according to independent rating agency oekom research. oekom research has published a study, The importance of sustainability criteria in assessing the opportunities ...