STOXX Launches Global ESG Leaders Indices

STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, substantial and global index concepts, today introduced the STOXX Global ESG Leaders Index family, an innovative series of ESG (environmental, social, governance) indices which is based on sustainability data provided by Sustainalytics, a leading global provider of ESG research and analysis, with nearly 20 years of experience in [...]

Quand le capital-investissement se met au ver

Le private equity intègre sur le tard les opportunités environnementales dans la gestion de ses entreprises, voire dans les phases d’acquisition.Le secteur du “private equity” devient la prochaine frontière pour le management environnemental », s’est réjouie il y a quelques semaines l’association Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Ses activistes, qui mobilisent les entreprises vers l’économie verte [...]

Cedrus Sustainable Funds Market report: number 1, Q1 2011

This quarterly publication is a synthesis of Cedrus Partners’ Sustainable Investments (SI) proprietary database, called ‘Cedrus Sustainable Funds Market’. This quantitative overview aims at giving an outline of the performance of each type of SI funds. Therefore, it is a complement to more academic studies on the subject. More… Source: Cedrus Partners

French dairy giant Danone experiments with sustainability-linked coupon for corporate bonds

Danone, the French dairy products and bottled water giant, is experimenting with the issuance of corporate bonds that would base part of their return on ESG (environment, social and governance) targets. But the company has put the project on hold because it says sustainability performance indicators are not yet robust enough to be tied to [...]

First Impact Investment Bond Issuance Platform for Institutional Investors

Symbiotics Closes Two Pioneer Deals with LOMC and MUCAP. Symbiotics, a leading microfinance investment services company, launched on Thursday December 16th Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise Bonds SA (MSME Bonds), an issuance platform based in Luxembourg dedicated to impact investing for institutional investors. Its two first bonds include a USD 10 million refinancing of MUCAP [...]

SAM founder and former CEO, Reto Ringger, outlines plans for new sustainability bank

Reto Ringger, founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Zurich-based Sustainable Asset Management (SAM), has pulled together a team to launch a private bank focused on sustainable investment. Ringger, who launched SAM over 15 years ago, told a conference in Zurich this week that the new bank had applied to the Swiss banking authorities [...]

NeXii joins President Clinton and CGI in making a Commitment to Action

NeXii is proud to announce that it has formally launched its European feasibility study as part of its Commitment to Action made at the Clinton Global Initiative 2010 meeting last month. The NeXii European feasibility study has commenced with NeXii’s local partner in France, Groupe SOS and will cover all European Union countries in the [...]

Prêt à lancer des fonds ISR made in Geneva

La société de gestion genevoise Dhaulagiry veut lancer des fonds basés sur des stratégies déjà proposées via des managed accounts. Objectif: doubler les actifs sous gestion. Près d’un an après sa création, Dhaulagiry cherche activement du seed money pour lancer des fonds utilisant les deux stratégies actuellement proposées via des managed accounts. “Nos stratégies ont [...]

Pictet launches a UCITS III-compliant environmental fund

Geneva and London, 26 August 2010 – Pictet Funds, the fund distribution company of the Swiss private bank Pictet & Cie, is launching Pictet-Environmental Megatrend Selection, a UCITS III-compliant EUR-denominated fund. The new fund will invest in the following global sector and theme funds managed by Pictet Asset Management: Water, Clean Energy, Timber and Agriculture. [...]

Report Calls for Mandatory Reporting of CSR Key Performance Indicators

Cambridge, MA – A research report published in June by the Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI), a project of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, puts forth a model system for developing key performance indicators (KPIs) appropriate for mandatory sustainability reporting. The report was written in conjunction with Arup. The report, From [...]