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Impax Asset Management scoops up Danish boutique manager
3 months ago
Impax Asset Management, an asset manager that invests in the transition to a more sustainable economy, has agreed to buy a boutique Danish business -
Allspring launches new climate transition fixed income fund
10 months ago
Allspring Global Investments has announced the launch of its second climate transition fixed income fund, called the Allspring Climate Transition Global High Yield Fund -
Oaktree launches global high yield Ucits fund with low-carbon emissions focus
1 year ago
Oaktree has launched a global high yield responsible Ucits fund, which it says will offer investors the “opportunity to gain exposure to the asset class while promoting progress toward a low-carbon economy.” -
Points up front: ESG official rants at ESG
1 year ago
Stuart Kirk, the former head of responsible investing at HSBC Asset Management, signed off on a frank note as he unveiled his resignation on LinkedIn -
Green negative basis trades open up after GM issues bonds
1 year ago
There is an attractive entry point for ESG-minded credit investors to put on green negative basis trades, according to a research paper by Anthropocene -
HSBC AM's responsible investing head resigns with view to creating "new asset class"
1 year ago
HSBC Asset Management’s global head of responsible investing has resigned after been suspended by the firm. This followed him delivering a conference speech in May in which he downplayed the impact of climate change on financial markets -
CEO steps down after DWS greenwashing allegations lead to police raid
1 year ago
A tumultuous 24 hours for DWS Group, in which police and regulators raided its office, has been compounded by the resignation of its chief executive officer Asoka Woehrmann on Wednesday morning -
We’ll get through this awkward patch
1 year ago
Wide liabilities have made pricing CLOs trickier in the past few months. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium were optimistic that the arbitrage is OK — so long as you can place those triple As -
"Boardrooms are being hustled by activist shareholders using ESG data to drive economic value"
2 years ago
Pledges have been made and the Race to Zero has begun. Firms need to put their plans in place -
"Credit investors should interpret 100,000 Russian troops on the Ukrainian border as worth pricing in"
2 years ago
Welshcake tells credit portfolio managers to under-promise and over-deliver in 2022 -
Robeco adds Asia fixed income head and builds team ahead of strategy launch
2 years ago
Robeco has made a senior hire with a focus on credit and sustainability as it moves staff from Rotterdam in preparation to launch a new fixed income strategy -
Investors take nuanced approach to ESG as they move on from negative screening: Elfa
2 years ago
European bond and loan investors have evolved their ESG investment frameworks with 86% saying that they integrate ESG factors 'systematically and explicitly' in their investment process -
ESG template fires up hopes of CSO issuance
2 years ago
2021 may not have been a year of big volume in the synthetic bespoke market, but primary business is back, and decisive inroads into environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused issuance bode well for 2022 -
Brace yourselves for increasing ESG basis in credit
2 years ago
One of the safest bets in credit for 2022 is that ESG focus will intensify, with market participants anticipating a surge of green bond issuance as well as widening spread dispersion between climate leaders and underperformers -
BNP Paribas AM launches Article 9 social bond fund
2 years ago
BNP Paribas Asset Management has launched a sustainable bond fund that will be classified as article nine under the EU’s sustainable financial disclosure regulation -
BlueBay launches Article 8 multi-asset credit fund with Lloyds of London backing
2 years ago
The Article 8 fund will invest in high yield, bank loans, financial capital bonds, structured credit, convertible bonds, emerging markets and developed market investment grade -
Elfa launches ESG exclusion checklist to streamline process for CLO managers
2 years ago
The European Leveraged Finance Association has launched an environmental, social and governance exclusion checklist, which it says is designed to “streamline the negative screening and exclusion” for CLO managers -
CB bond purchase 'greening' is game changer for credit: BofA
2 years ago
Confirmation by the Bank of England that its corporate bond purchase scheme will be ‘greened’ is a game changing moment for credit markets, say Bank of America strategists -
Zais and BNP Paribas strike ESG breakthrough with climate change CSO
2 years ago
The growing theme of environmental, social and governance standards helping to revitalise the market for collateralised synthetic obligations appears to have taken a big step forward, with Zais Group and BNP Paribas partnering on a first-of-its-kind deal that could lay a template for future transactions -
LGIM launches European ESG bond fund
2 years ago
Legal & General Investment Management has become the latest manager to launch a European credit fund focused on environmental, social and governance criteria -
"If ESG funds only talk the talk, it is because investors, legislators and regulators don’t walk the walk"
2 years ago
Whatever an ESG fund means to you, it probably means something different to the next investor -
Tabula launches ESG compliant Asia ex-Japan high yield ETF
2 years ago
Fixed income exchange traded fund provider Tabula Investment Management has launched what it says is Europe's first dollar-denominated Asia ex-Japan high yield corporate bond ETF compliant with environmental, social and governance standards -
"Do not rush to set up a check-box approach with negative screening and start de-investing"
2 years ago
Instead of rushing through an ESG framework, asset managers need to adopt a long- and short-term approach -
Former DWS official claims company over-stated ESG progress: WSJ
2 years ago
DWS Group’s environmental, social and governance investment claims are in the spotlight after its former sustainability officer claimed the firm over-stated its ESG efforts, according to the Wall Street Journal -
Green QE is future, says BofA
2 years ago
Last week's European Central Bank strategy review confirmed that climate change policies will dictate the shape of future asset purchases, say Bank of America credit strategists
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