Positive selection vs negative screening

Feb 25, 2022 | Commentary

As the impact and sustainable investing markets expand and develop, different investors are employing different investment selection strategies. The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance provides a helpful characterisation of these different approaches[1]. Those...
Screening for impact: Spotlight on Sovereigns

Screening for impact: Spotlight on Sovereigns

Nov 1, 2021 | Commentary

Governments hold a crucial role in shaping and facilitating national transitions to a low carbon and socially equitable economy given the breadth and scale of their mandates, as well as their power to catalyse private sector action. Sovereign impact bonds are a key...
Impact investing to finance the net zero transition

Impact investing to finance the net zero transition

Oct 27, 2021 | Commentary

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) sixth assessment report (AR6), the first section of which was published in August 2021, presents a sobering assessment of the lagging efforts the world has taken to reduce GHG emissions.[1] The AR6 emphasises what...
Greenium – fact or fiction?

Greenium – fact or fiction?

Mar 4, 2021 | Commentary

Introduction Since the inception of the green bond market, there has been a debate around the concept of a green bond yield discount, or ‘greenium’. ‘Greenium’ is the idea that issuers are able to obtain a cheaper cost of funding by issuing debt with a specified ‘use...