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FNArena s dedicated ESG Focus news section zooms in on matters Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) that are increasingly guiding investors preferences and decisions globally. For more news updates, past and future:
ESG Focus: The Name’s Bond – GSS Bond
The green, social and sustainable use-of-proceeds bonds market is staging an invasion of the traditional bond market and, while it’s early days, the bridgehead has been claimed.
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-The name’s bond – green bond
-Pricing, risk and the waning greenium
By Sarah Mills
The green, social and sustainability (GSS) use-of-proceeds bond markets have paved the way for the broader sustainability-linked finance market, which is expected to extend its tentacles across every business in the world over the next two decades.
Ninety One Becomes First Investment Manager Founded in South Africa to Sign Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative
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On May 20, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk, which outlines various initiatives to promote policies related to physical and transition risks associated with climate change and to prioritize federal investments in support of those policies. In this alert, we focus on key aspects of the order that could have implications for private equity funds and areas of consideration for asset managers as a whole.
The Executive Order addresses five broad priorities:
develop a government-wide strategy for mitigating climate-related financial risk;
encourage financial regulators to assess climate-related financial risk;
encourage consideration of climate-related financial risks related to life savings and pensions;
Ninety One becomes first SA signatory to net zero asset managers initiative
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