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Tikehau launches high yield impact credit fund
2 years ago
Tikehau says it has committed €30 million of initial capital to the fund, through which it aims to transition companies towards a net zero carbon economy -
CLO managers embed new EU sustainable disclosure language in docs after investor push
2 years ago
Bridgepoint, CSAM and Pinebridge are among managers to include language related to the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, following a push from CLO investor Lupus alpha -
Axa IM extends palm oil policy to cover ecosystem protection and deforestation
2 years ago
Axa Investment Managers says it is expanding its 2014 policy of excluding investments in companies which do not have sustainable palm oil production certificates by factoring in deforestation and ecosystem protection -
LSTA, LMA and Elfa publish standardised ESG questionnaire for CLO managers
2 years ago
The Loan Syndications & Trading Association (LSTA), Europe’s Loan Markets Association (LMA) and the European Leveraged Finance Association (Elfa) – have teamed up to launch a new ‘standardised’ ESG due diligence questionnaire for CLO managers -
"Technology won’t replace human judgement. In ESG a qualitative review is necessary"
2 years ago
The social aspect of ESG must be given sufficient weight in investment decisions -
Elfa adds to ESG fact sheet range in standardisation drive
2 years ago
The European Leveraged Finance Association (Elfa) will shortly publish sector-specific fact sheets for the transport and healthcare industries, sources say, bringing its total of ESG fact sheets to 12 -
"We should be mindful of the transfer of power to the C-suite that inheres in ESG"
2 years ago
As shareholder returns become one factor among many, the C-suite becomes more powerful -
Partners prints five-year European CLO with ESG-scored deal
2 years ago
Partners becomes second European CLO manager to breakthrough the five year reinvestment period -
Blackstone and Credit Suisse among participants in talks for new ESG loan index
2 years ago
European leveraged loan market participants – including Blackstone and Credit Suisse – are said to be in the process of launching the ESG loan index -
Partners joins ESG-scoring CLO managers but standardisation doubts persist
2 years ago
Partners will implement its scoring system across its European CLOs, US CLOs and non-CLO funds -
Climate change pair trade delivers as oil companies' CDS widens
2 years ago
A climate change pair trade proposed by Anthropocene in March has come good with Norwegian oil company Equinor’s CDS outperforming Total, a French oil company -
"The lack of standardised ESG data creates opportunities for data-driven investors"
2 years ago
Investors can gain an edge by using technology to help parse ESG data -
CLOs seem like Premier League members in the world of finance
2 years ago
The CLO industry is in a privileged position and can wield its power to do good -
Investor uses Paris Agreement as template for ESG language
2 years ago
Lupus Alpha Asset Management is supporting the advance of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) criteria in European CLOs by embedding language into deal documentation that is linked to the European Union Paris-aligned Benchmark (which derives from the Paris Climate Agreement). -
Carlyle and Aflac officials lead new ACC committee with ESG template outlined as priority
2 years ago
The Alternative Credit Council has launched an ‘investor manager committee’, chaired by Carlyle Group’s Erica Frontiero and Elena Boeva from Aflac Global Investments, that has ESG in private credit as one of its first orders of business -
BlackRock wins €400 million ESG private debt mandate
2 years ago
BlackRock has won a mandate to manage an ESG focused European private debt fund from a Munich-based firm -
"The heterogeneous set of KPIs make comparisons difficult and self-policing hurts credibility"
2 years ago
Loans with ESG ratchets are popular and a good way to align incentives – but we need accountable external reviewers -
Hermes seeks ESG alpha in companies making changes
2 years ago
Buy-side demand to tick boxes for ESG standards has fuelled a boom in green and social impact bonds that is extending into high yield issuance. But as investment opportunities mount, so does soul-searching about the next phase -
Fund managers brace for EU’s new sustainability regulations
2 years ago
European fund managers were faced with new environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) regulations in March, which enhance disclosure requirements around sustainability -
"If we have to rely on top-down global political coordination we are all doomed"
2 years ago
ESG can’t be dictated to us by authorities. It’s a way of life -
A transformational framework means fund managers have to drive real-world change
3 years ago
There are managers who make transformational investments, those who incorporate ESG and those who do nothing -
Axa IM leads as ESG grows in European CLO industry
3 years ago
European CLOs are increasingly launching with express ESG mandates embedded as issuers seek to get ahead of what appears to be an inevitable shift towards ethical investing -
UN PRI's upcoming report on ESG in CLOs finds bar is very low
3 years ago
In a preview of the upcoming report, Carmen Nuzzo, head of fixed income at UN Principles for Responsible Investment, reveals to Creditflux key highlights from its ESG in securitisation report -
ESG growth in CLOs has momentum in 2021, say JPM strategists
3 years ago
ESG investing in securitised products such as CLOs have 'momentum for growth in 2021' despite very slow volume growth and lack of progress in standardised scoring over the past year, say JP Morgan strategists in a research note -
Tikehau launches ESG private debt fund with interest rate ratchets
3 years ago
The European Investment Fund has backed Tikehau's private debt fund, Tikehau Impact Lending, which provides lower interest rates to companies that meet their sustainability goals
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