ESG & Responsible Investing

Prime Capital’s planned Green Energy Infrastructure Fund receives Second-Party Opinion from Sustainalytics

10 December 2019

Prime Capital AG, an independent alternative asset manager and financial services provider, has received the first Second-Party Opinion on an infrastructure equity fund from Sustainalytics, a global specialist in ESG research, ratings and analysis. Prime Capital’s planned Green Energy Infrastructure Fund, investing primarily in greenfield onshore wind projects in the

Amundi and EIB’s Green Credit Continuum programme achieves first closing at EUR253 million

9 December 2019

Fundraising for the first vintage of the Green Continuum programme, a joint venture between Emundn and the European Investment Bank (EIB) has successfully reached EUR253 million as of 30 of November 2019. The programme was launched in July earlier this year. The programme aims to contribute to the deployment of

Poor ESG performance increases likelihood of activist investor attention

3 December 2019

Companies ranked in the bottom 50 per cent of ESG performance are significantly more likely to attract activists’ attention, according to the findings of Alvarez & Marsal’s (A&M) latest analysis and predictor of shareholder activism in Europe, the A&M Activist Alert (AAA). The study also predicts that the wave of

PE investors view ESG as ‘supportive activity towards value creation’

2 December 2019

It is becoming increasingly clear that private equity investors are training their sights on how GPs think about ESG issues. The degree to which they engage on the topic, and their approach to influencing portfolio companies, is now firmly entrenched in manager selection and it is a trend that is

Regulatory bodies not doing enough on ESG regulation, say alternative investment leaders

26 November 2019

More than two thirds (67 per cent) of senior leaders within the alternative investments industry think regulatory bodies are not doing enough regarding Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) regulation, according to the results of a new survey by Duff & Phleps. ESG governance considers a number of factors that determine

New qualification in ESG Investing to launch in December

20 November 2019

CFA UK’s Certificate in ESG Investing, the first qualification of its kind in the UK, will be available to investment professionals from December. The Certificate has been introduced to meet the increased demand for ESG knowledge and skills in the investment sector and is already seeing high uptake. In

Mirova’s Althelia Sustainable Ocean Fund raises additional USD50m

19 November 2019

Mirova Natural Capital wholly owned by sustainable investment manager Mirova, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has held the second close of the Althelia Sustainable Ocean Fund (SOF), a fund dedicated to making pioneering impact investments into marine and coastal projects and enterprises that can deliver sustainable economic returns in

DC Advisory and Daiwa form JV with Green Giraffe

30 October 2019

DC Advisory and its parent company Daiwa, have entered into a 50:50 joint venture agreement with renewable energy specialists Green Giraffe. The new joint venture will complement DC Advisory’s existing leading position in the infrastructure M&A and debt advisory markets, by adding global renewable energy expertise. Green Giraffe will

Resonance Asset Management launches Guernsey Green Fund focused on onshore wind farms

14 October 2019

Resonance British Wind Energy Income II, an authorised, close-ended investment fund focused on the wind farm sector in the UK and Ireland, has been launched as a Guernsey Green Fund. The fund is Resonance Asset Management’s third Guernsey fund, with the firm having previously launched a similar UK onshore wind

Natixis and EDHECinfra partner up to evaluate impact of ESG on infrastructure investing

7 October 2019

Natixis and EDHECinfra have launched a new three-year research chair, directed by the same team that created an unlisted infrastructure indexing platform, to create useable, comparable documented measures of the impact and risk profile of social and environmental factors on infrastructure investments. ESG refers to the central factors in measuring

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