Europe
Europe takes the lead in private markets transition investing
European investors continue to see opportunity in the transition, with private market transition assets gathering investor interest, new research reveals
Caisse des Dépôts to phase out oil from fixed income holdings
Caisse des Dépôts, the €320bn French public sector pension fund is phasing out oil from its fixed income holdings as part of a wider update of its climate policy.
Build it and they will come: the climate index market heats up
Physical risks, passive strategies and regulatory change are shaping investor demand for climate indices
‘Summer of truth’: Europe plans to tackle climate insurance gap with new alliance
Europe is set to launch a new alliance to tackle the insurance gap for climate-related losses, EC president Von der Leyen announced today
Sustainable funds outperforming peers, new data shows
Analysis from Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing shows performance bolstered by equity returns
BlackRock’s Muijsson on adding impact to OCIO mandates
In a bid to meet growing asset owner appetite for customisation, BlackRock plans to offer its OCIO clients greater access to impact managers. Cherry Muijsson, a CIO for BlackRock’s EMEA pensions team, explains why
European banks’ green bond issuance ‘skewed away from clean energy investments’
European lenders are ‘failing to unleash the potential’ of green bonds, with lending heavily concentrated on building improvements, despite evidence that clean energy delivers a higher impact on emissions avoidance
Danish tailwinds are powering Ukraine’s wartime wind farms
Danish sovereign wealth fund EIFO and turbine supplier Vestas are bolstering a wind energy rollout in Ukraine
‘No trade-off’: ESG income funds delivered both ESG and income
Morningstar research shows ESG strategies did not carry a yield discount relative to conventional peers
European investors are counting the cost of extreme heat
With large parts of the continent facing a period of extreme drought, investors are rethinking how to prepare their portfolios for extreme weather