Products: archive
Every Products story in Sustainable Investing, newest first. 68 stories
1 story
Deetken Impact reaches $100M first close
The $100 million is a first close, not final fund size, ImpactAlpha reports.
1 story
Ara closes $2.5bn conventional-energy fund as Blackstone hits $8.7bn hard cap
The pool combines $1.8bn fund commitments with $700m co-investment; Blackstone's transition fund is more than 50% larger than its predecessor.
1 story
EU green bond standard issuance reaches €39bn by 7 October, nearly double 2025
Commission figures put cumulative issuance under the voluntary standard at about €60 billion since December 2024.
1 story
Mirova natural capital platform tops $1 billion as impact data covers two projects
Mirova's 2025 impact report counts 4.9 million tonnes of CO2e across its carbon portfolio, though reported emissions cover only two projects
1 story
ESMA guidance asks fund and bond providers to separate investor impact from investee impact
The thematic note creates no new obligations and covers bond providers as well as funds.
3 stories
Finance Earth, FSD Africa and FSD Africa Investments launch $100 million Africa Nature Impact Fund
The platform targets a $20 million first close in 2027 and a proposed $6.6 million cornerstone commitment from FSD Africa Investments.
Finance Earth and FSD Africa Investments announce $100 million Africa Nature Impact Fund
The fund targets a $20 million first close in 2027, anchored by a $6.6 million commitment from FSD Africa Investments.
Stoxx and Osmosis launch 48-index transition factor suite
The suite spans single-factor, multi-factor and sustainability-integrated indices built on Stoxx Investable Market Indices for institutional investors.
1 story
Candide closes $71.5 million Afterglow climate justice fund
The California impact advisory has deployed more than $35 million across 12 U.S. borrowers, ESG Today reports.
2 stories
MUFG launches EU green deposit product with Subaru Europe as first client
The EU version adds a market to a product MUFG introduced in the US in 2021 and the UK in 2023.
Hong Kong prices US$2.6 billion digital green bond in fourth tokenized sale
The four-tranche offering drew subscription ratios of 1.3 to 11.3 times and put tokenized deposits into the Hong Kong dollar tranche's settlement.
1 story
Thailand raises $750 million in Asia-Pacific's first sovereign sustainability-linked bond with a nature KPI
ADB-supported 15-year deal issued 17 September drew subscriptions 2.8 times its $450 million planned size.
1 story
Garanti BBVA completes $125m Tier II bond with IFC and DEG for green SMEs
The 10-year subordinated issue earmarks proceeds for micro-enterprise and SME equipment investments and women entrepreneurs' access to finance.
1 story
Vanguard proxy-voting data: younger investors pick its ESG option at twice the older rate
The Glass Lewis ESG Policy drew 38.8% of investors under 30 in the 2026 season, but its asset-weighted share of selections fell to 12% from 18%.
3 stories
EIB and BNP Paribas split $794m grid guarantee; Achmea and ILX plan debt vehicle
Each bank takes up to $397 million of exposure inside a $1.70 billion package supported by InvestEU, while only two of the week's six announcements report money raised.
Italy's green bond draws $129bn of orders for $9.4bn sale
The 12-year BTP Green carries a 4.40% coupon and a 4.492% gross yield, with more than 330 investors bidding and building efficiency and clean transport expected to take the largest shares of proceeds.
Enable Ventures raises $50.3 million for a disability tech fund
The impact raise arrives without a stated target, close date or backer list, and lands below the comparable vehicles covered here this year.
2 stories
Italy completes €8bn green bond sale with €110bn order book
Proceeds will be split across all six categories in the framework Italy updated in late 2025, with building efficiency and transport taking the largest shares.
Achmea IM and ILX plan emerging-markets debt impact vehicle for Dutch pension funds
The proposed platform would hold private credit and loans originated by multilateral development banks and development finance institutions, with most of the portfolio carrying an impact objective.
2 stories
Glass Lewis and Clarity AI announce merger, keeping separate brands until 2027
The proxy advisor and the sustainability data platform will integrate their products in phases and base a sustainability, data and AI center of excellence in Madrid.
Crédit Agricole launches natural capital unit with $227mn forest fund target
The new unit combines financing, insurance and project development with exclusive talks to acquire a majority stake in EcoTree.
1 story
A corporate balance sheet anchors ERV's second fund
Centrica's $13.5 million commitment puts a strategic buyer in the Seed and Series A electrification market.
2 stories
The sustainable label now names who absorbs the first loss
Mombak’s $150 million close, Nigeria’s $300 million of public money, and a state lender inside a $140 million Mercia Ventures vehicle all disclose who absorbs the first loss before they disclose what the fund owns.
Mombak's $150 million Fund II rides Salesforce offtake and BNDES credit
The first close shows what a reforestation fund now needs before it can market to LPs: a buyer under contract and a development bank in the capital stack.
3 stories
New York's first ESG-labeled GO sale is demand-side plumbing
The $318.9 million sale splits into a short taxable series and a long tax-exempt one, a two-tranche structure other state GO programs can copy.
The next climate index pitch is a tracking error budget
Scientific Climate Indices pairs a 15% physical-risk cut with one point of error, and Standard Life's benchmark launch shows allocators now buy arithmetic, not adjectives.
MSCI puts a product operator atop its ESG business
Kim's résumé is a build-and-ship record, and the slot MSCI gave her says where the firm thinks the margin sits.
4 stories
Thailand's second sovereign SLB writes biodiversity into the KPI list
Biodiversity joins emissions reduction as a stated target, but the documentation attaches no pricing consequence to either one.
Pulse Fund raises $63 million to scout deals it can't follow
Pulse's $63 million buys a four-market climate portfolio; the follow-on capital for its winners will have to come from balance sheets outside the fund.
Federated Hermes fills its top ESG post from inside
An internal elevation puts proxy voting, client relations and thematic research in one office, a control function rather than a product launch.
Pulse Fund closes $63 million on a thesis its size can't carry
A first-time climate manager raised $63 million across four sectors; one portfolio company's $45 million project deal already dwarfs the fund's ability to follow it.
1 story
LOIM takes its $6.8 billion net-zero platform into US and Japanese equities
Two benchmark-aware funds complete the platform's expansion into the deepest listed markets; the 2°C claim now rests on companies' own forward emissions estimates rather than what they emit today.
1 story
BlueOrchard's $250m close was built around Solvency UK eligibility
A development bank paid for the regulatory mapping before any capital was called, and that is the part the next vehicle will copy.
1 story
Sustainable fund assets hit a record as the edge thins
Morgan Stanley's institute puts the first-half edge at under a point; the returns came mostly from a heavier equity tilt.
1 story
A $3.4 million note sale tests community lending's retail channel
Appalachian Community Capital's first note series is a proof of concept; the second will show whether a retail channel exists.
1 story
Greenly and Normative merge, and the revenue math reads defensive
A merger sold on platform breadth projects software ARR growth just under 19% a year, a pace that reads defensive rather than expansive.
1 story
An 18% drop in sustainable loans is a verdict on the label
Borrowers are routing around the SLL's KPI scaffolding, financing transition assets through private credit and unlabeled project finance.
2 stories
Pension pools push Clean Growth Fund II past halfway
Border to Coast's $30.3 million anchor carries the fund beyond the midpoint of a $202 million target and leaves 21 deals to prove the climate-tech returns story.
Common Good Fund weds faith-based capital to impact investing
Anthos and Ascension Investment Management have answered a women's religious order's decade-old request with the Common Good Fund, folding faith-based exclusions and impact allocations into one vehicle.
1 story
Aviva creates a sustainable equities seat and hires Lilloy
Lilloy inherits the Global Climate Equity Strategy as Max Burns retires and Duncan Bulgin takes over equity research, giving sustainable equities a named leader and a seat in Aviva's active equities lineup.