A strategy that’s delivered specialist investors huge returns is now facing scrutiny, amid concerns that its risk-reward dynamics might be skewed against some issuers. Catastrophe bonds, which are issued by insurers, reinsurers and governments seeking an extra layer of disaster coverage, have been handing investors double-digit returns. Issuers, meanwhile, have seen their costs soar. Grievances surfaced in
More, please! getty The CREO Syndicate, a large investor group with scores of family office and foundation members, released a very useful report summary today with tons of interesting data about private investments into climate solutions. My team at Spring Lane Capital co-founded CREO when we were still at a family office some years back,
Norfund, Norway’s $4 billion development fund, is seeking allocations to long-term infrastructure and other sectors in the Asia Pacific, as it positions itself as an attractive co-investor for sovereign, institutional and private sector capital. “Public funding is a scarce resource, so the more we work with private markets, the more we can achieve. And we
New UK finance minister Rachel Reeves vowed Monday to immediately “fix the foundations” of Britain’s economy, fuelled by onshore wind power and house building, after her Labour party won power. In her first major speech since being appointed the UK’s first woman chancellor of the exchequer by new Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Reeves said there
The European Union needs to double targeted investment to meet its 2030 climate goal, a consortium of research organisations said on Tuesday, warning that the pace of Europe’s related action must accelerate. Delivering on the 2030 objective is pivotal for the EU’s ability to achieve an ambitious target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday urged investors to get behind cutting-edge climate technologies he says would drive a “green industrial revolution” and a next wave of global prosperity. Over three days in an upmarket London venue, Gates showcased more than 100 companies making ground on cutting planet-heating emissions from carbon-intensive sectors most responsible for
More money is pouring into solar power than all other electricity sources combined, with investments set to reach half a trillion dollars this year, the world’s top energy research body said Thursday. The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast in a report that global investment in clean energy this year will hit $2 trillion, twice the