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Storebrand Fund a Gauge for Green Bond Growth

Chris Hall

Asset managers Head of Fixed Income hopes market expansion will eliminate need for the purely green bond-focused vehicle within the next decade. Niche to mainstream evolution Storebrand stated that the fund was the first commercial green bond fund, building on the first ever green bond issued by the World Bank in 2008.

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Goldman Sachs Launches New Green and Impact Bond Funds

ESG Today

The launch of the new funds follows several years of significant growth in the sustainable bond market, as companies and governments have turned to sustainable bonds to help finance their climate, environmental and social commitments and initiatives.

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This Week’s Fund News: Robeco Introduces Article 9 Biodiversity Strategy

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Robeco, Morgan Stanley IM, GMPF, Impax AM, Orchard Street IM and Nuveen. . The strategies look to deliver competitive investment results and sustainable impact across listed global equities and green bonds respectively.

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GSS Bonds Suffer First Ever Slump in 2022

Chris Hall

Climate Bonds Initiative’s (CBI) Market Intelligence report found green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked (SLB) and transition bonds (collectively known as GSS+) had fallen from over a record US$1 trillion in 2021 to US$863.4 Of that total, sustainability bonds contributed US$166.4

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Top 10 Business Sustainability Issues of 2023

B the Change

Social sustainability requires considering their needs. There’s a need for examples of organizations with “successful social justice strategies and processes,” wrote a North American academic. Get Started: What Is Social Sustainability provides an overall framework for action. Sustainable Finance 10.

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JPM AM GSS Bond Strategy Targets Transition

Chris Hall

Strategy looks to invest in issuers “actively” shifting towards renewables, environmentally sustainable practices. It will be available both as a SICAV – the JPMorgan Funds – Green Social Sustainable Bond Fund (SICAV), and as an ETF, the JPMorgan ETFs (Ireland) ICAV – Green Social Sustainable Bond UCITS ETF.

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Are we Eating up Our World?

Chris Hall

Yet, there is growing evidence that funds labeled as ‘sustainable’ do not always deliver what they promise. In addition to impact funds, there are a growing variety of debt funds, specialised green bonds and listed equity funds that aim to apply E&S frameworks to generate positive impacts. appeared first on ESG Investor.

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