Guernsey bids to be green fund hub with launch
The channel island of Guernsey has launched a new regulated fund structure for firms launching strategies with a commitment to mitigating environmental damage.
The channel island of Guernsey has launched a new regulated fund structure for firms launching strategies with a commitment to mitigating environmental damage.
In the latest instalment of the Clarity Clinic, Russell Waite, the director of Affinity Private Wealth, describes his experience of taking a sustainable investing qualification, and describes how millennials are changing misconceptions about ESG.
The global transition to renewable energy sources is now being driven by profit potential and no longer by government policy and subsidies.
The Church of England has committed to divesting from all fossil fuel companies by 2023 but said that calls for it to do so earlier, by 2020, would leave its “strategy and influence in tatters.”
Legal & General Investment Management America has appointed a new head of US Stewardship and Sustainable Investments.
The trade conflict between the US and China has negatively affected investor sentiment, but Luciano Diana, Geneva-based head of environmental strategies, believes it is only noise, despite the negative effects on his fund’s portfolio.
On the surface, Asia lags miles behind the west on key ESG issues – but the region is changing.
German index group Solactive has launched an index to track companies embracing the transition to renewable energy while exhibiting low volatility and high dividend yield characteristics.
The investment management arm of US bank Morgan Stanley has launched a new global equity strategy focused on sustainability.
A green finance fund, backed by French fund manager Amundi and energy group EDF, has announced its first successful equity raising from investors.
Cryptocurrencies should be viewed critically from an environmental, social and governance (ESG) perspective, according to a sustainable investments rating agency.
Financial data group IHS Markit has launched a reporting platform that will gather environmental, social and governance-based data sets from companies.