News Agence France Trésor announced the successful launch of the first French sovereign green bond
Today, Agence France Trésor announced the successful launch of the first French sovereign green bond with a maturity of 22 years. The Green OAT 1.75% 25 June 2039 issuance amount was €7bn, making it the largest and longest-dated green bond ever (...)
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Interview Tammie Tang and Simon Bond : “Investors in the fund are those interested in enabling positive social outcomes”
Interview with Tammie Tang, portfolio manager of the Threadneedle (Lux) European Social Bond and Simon Bond, director, responsible investment at Columbia Threadneedle Investments about the social bond market and their fund dedicated to this investment (...)
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News Schroders completes acquisition of majority shareholding in Greencoat Capital
Schroders is today announcing that it has completed the acquisition of a 75% shareholding in Greencoat Capital, one of Europe’s largest investment managers dedicated to the high-growth renewable infrastructure market.
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Interview Sabine Castellan Poquet : “To respect the ’Paris Agreements’, we will have to achieve carbon neutrality of our portfolios by 2050 at the latest”
According to Sabine Castellan Poquet, Investment Director Macif - Aema group, interest rise increase, a consequence of this resurgence of inflation, is rather positive for life insurers who are structural bond (...)
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Interview Carole Zacchéo : “The war will strengthen the interest of investors and savers for the ESG theme”
According to Carole Zacchéo, CIO at Maif group, the french mutual insurance, an investor committed to an ambitious climate strategy, investments in favor of energy transition will increase, both in terms of energy efficiency and renewable energy (...)
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Note CNP Assurances publishes its responsible investment report and for the first time measures the dependence of its investment portfolio on biodiversity loss
With more than €370 billion invested across all sectors, CNP Assurances is a major player in financing the real economy. In accordance with the new requirements of Article 29 of France’s Climate Energy Law, CNP Assurances is today publishing its responsible investment report, (...)
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Interview Emmanuel Brutin : “We have chosen to move towards a 100% ESG allocation”
Emmanuel Brutin, Head of Insured Portfolio Management at CNP Assurances, indicates that over the course of 2022, the insurer has repositioned itself on bond products in order to benefit from the upward trend in interest (...)
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Interview Bertrand Desportes, Mazars Partner: “Impact finance is based on the pillars of intentionality, additionality and impact measurement”
According to Bertrand Desportes, Partner at Mazars, the issues surrounding impact as well as the notion of positive impact measurement quite clearly differentiate impact finance from other sustainable finance practices.
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News TotalEnergies Invests in Sustainable Forestry in Southeast Asia
TotalEnergies announces that it will contribute an amount of $50 million to the “Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2” (TAFF2) managed by New Forests, which aims at investing in certified plantations and native forest conservation projects in various countries across South-East Asia, (...)
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Opinion What’s hot: Suspension of EU ETS unlikely
Sharply rising energy prices are pressuring politicians to react. Last week the European Commission called for an overhaul of the electricity market following price increases in excess of 20% in a single day in France. The European Commission is talking tough but is offering (...)
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News CNP Assurances successfully launches its first subordinated sustainable bond
A player in ecological and social transition, CNP Assurances announces the successful issue of its first sustainable bond, carried out on January 11, 2023, for an amount of €500 million. The fixed annual coupon is 5,25% until july 18, 2033 and then will be floating beyond (...)
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Note Issuance in Emerging Market Green Bonds to Reach $100 Billion by 2023, Amundi and IFC Find
Despite the impact of COVID-19, emerging market green bond issuance totalled $40 billion in 2020. Underpinned by supportive market fundamentals, emerging market green bond issuance is expected to reach $100 billion by 2023. Since 2012, 43 emerging markets have issued green (...)
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Innovation Solactive licenses Smart City and Smart Factory Indices to Amundi
According to a forecast of the United Nations, more than 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050, and smart technology can help to tackle the challenges emerging from this trend of rapid urbanization...
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Video Impact investing
With more than 20 billion euros of assets under management in thematic equities, and investment philosophies committed to the major challenges of our century, such as access to education and care, the food chain, reduction inequalities or even the protection of the planet, (...)
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News Solactive Launches PAB High-Yield (Y) Indices and Enlarges Paris-Aligned Index Family
Investors have been increasingly considering aligning investment decisions with ESG values. In 2021, this focus increased as the entire world watched heads of states’ debates on effective actions against climate change at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, (...)
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