Sustainability

  • Mapfre commits to assessing 95% of investment portfolio using ESG criteria

    18 March 2024

    Strategic plan for 2024 to 2026 also commits insurer to reducing GHG emissions 43% by 2030

  • Tokio Marine unit plans ditching investees without decarbonitation plans

    15 March 2024

    60 companies from high emiting sectors targeted

  • IAR Real Assets: Net-zero targets need to be easily understood, Legal & General says

    14 March 2024

    Pricing still an issue for renewables investments

  • IAR Real Assets: Perfect landing expected in the US, but we're still circling the runway, Swiss Re says

    14 March 2024

    ERGO group finding investing in ESG infrastructure more difficult than expected

  • A quarter of institutional investors expect "dramatic increase" in real estate development finance allocations over next three years

    13 March 2024

    Survey from Downing also finds ESG credentials of property development finance firms expected to come under increasing scrutiny

  • Lack of nature-related scenarios a challenge for target setting, insurers say

    12 March 2024

    Though tools exist, their limitations need to be understood, and information needs to become investment-useful, Fidelity, Phoenix and Abeille Assurance tell conference

  • 98% of insurer investment professionals concerned about greenwashing, Ortec Finance survey finds

    12 March 2024

    11% feel their own company's ESG strategies and programmes are "very ineffective"

  • Fokoku Life Mutual invests JPY 4.9bn in sustainable development bond

    12 March 2024

    Bond from Inter-American Development Bank for health and employment of Central American women

  • Axa IM Alts secures £480m construction loan for City of London prime office scheme

    11 March 2024

    Six-year facility from Cale Street will fund development of 36-storey building on Fenchurch Street

  • M&G Catalyst commits €150m to regenerative farming fund

    08 March 2024

    Regenerate European Sustainable Agriculture Fund will invest €40m in growth of Portuguese blueberry enterprise

  • Mirova launches European social impact private equity strategy

    08 March 2024

    MILE strategy aims to raise €200m from institutional and individual investors

  • AllianzGI toughens up pay, gender diversity and climate voting policies for 2024

    05 March 2024

    And releases 2023 voting results, having voted on 95,512 shareholder and management proposals

  • MEAG completes large-scale Finnish forestry transaction

    05 March 2024

    Munich Re's asset manager adds 33,000 hectares to forestry portfolio

  • Generali Investments' Sosteneo takes stake in battery energy storage portfolio

    04 March 2024

    Deal with Enel Italia is worth €1.1bn

  • Japanese earthquake reinsurer backs transition sovereign bond

    04 March 2024

    Japan Earthquake Reinsurance joins long list of industry investors