Manager selection: the next frontier of climate investing?
Guidance from the IIGCC paves the way for mandates and manager selection to reflect climate expectations
Asset Allocation
Energy investors shift focus to demand-side assets
Infrastructure investors are increasingly targeting batteries, heat pumps and data centres as volatile power markets, electrification and rising digital demand reshape the infrastructure landscape
Sasja Beslik: the investor who stuck to his ESG guns
Amid the ESG-backlash, his Japanese ESG equity fund delivered 84% in four year net returns
Rest backs US data centre investment linked to $3bn Net Zero Fund
The Australian pension fund is the largest investor in Quinbrook’s Net Zero Power Fund
UK investors turn to renewables amidst Iran war
New UKSIF poll shows 87% expect investments in renewables to rise
Asia’s asset owners ‘leading by example’ on climate solutions investing
New AIGCC data shows energy storage tops Asia’s climate investment priorities
Britain’s DB schemes increase allocation to climate aware funds
New research from XPS shows larger schemes translate net zero targets into investment strategies
Australia mulls changes to superfund performance test over sustainable investment concerns
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has pledged to strengthen the test amid criticisms over its effect on climate-driven investment
Impax private market fund to exit French onshore wind portfolio
The 88MW portfolio will be sold to Octopus Energy Generation’s Sky fund
Akademiker overhauls climate strategy introducing transition focus
CIO Anders Schelde says the fund will strengthen climate engagement with managers
Investors brace themselves for a future of higher oil prices
With the global economy set to face 'the biggest energy crisis in history' investors remain divided over the long-term fallout of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz
Whispered truths: how climate capital allocators are revising their private markets playbook
Capital allocation and manager selection are more rigorous than ever before, new study shows
Australian sovereign wealth fund to invest $863m in Tasmanian grid infrastructure
It marks the completion of financing for the country’s ‘clean energy highway’ – Project Marinus