Institutional investors still grapple to secure reliable and consistent data to support their sustainable investment strategies, particularly as they venture into private markets, research reveals.
Just over a year after the incoming Donald Trump administration in the US kicked the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative into the long grass, the coalition is back offering a revised platform on which the industry can discuss climate related investing.
USD 84 billion drained from global sustainable funds in 2025, with investors spooked by geopolitical tensions, anti-ESG sentiment, regulatory uncertainty and mixed performance, according to figures from Morningstar Sustainalytics.
At the end of 2025, Octopus Capital – the real assets arm of Octopus Investments – announced the construction of two retirement living sites, which it says will help “tackle the UK’s chronic undersupply of specialist housing for older people”.
British International Investment (BII), the UK’s impact investor and development finance institution, has announced it will be an anchor investor for the Allianz Credit Emerging Markets fund (ACE).
t was only a matter of time before the European Commission was forced to rewrite the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations (SFDR) having deemed them unfit for purpose.
As COP30 kicks off in Brazil marking the 10-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement on climate change, the outlook appears bleak for ESG investors.
The Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII) has announced the release of its latest guide for investors, “Deforestation and fixed income markets: A primer”.
M&G Investments (M&G) has launched a EUR300 million impact-focused private debt strategy on behalf of Dutch pension fund, Pensioenfonds KPN. Aegon Asset Management – a leading investment and fiduciary manager, has selected M&G as one of the managers for the private debt mandate of Pensioenfonds KPN.
Robeco has announced that PGGM, one of the Netherlands’ leading pension investors, has awarded it two advanced 3D investment mandates totalling over EUR 15 billion on behalf of its client Pensioenfonds Zorg & Welzijn (PFZW).
