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Sustainable securitization is moving into the mainstream, with a growing number of managers adopting ESG language in CLOs — usually through excluding specific industries from investment. What’s next in the green securitization revolution will depend on building a rigorous framework for assessing ESG factors and how to create standards. Paola Aurisicchio reports. -
Royal Dutch Shell was on the receiving end of a landmark court ruling last week that will compel the company to take profound climate change mitigation action. Not that you’d know from Shell’s bond curve. Time for fixed income investors to pull their heads out of the oil sand.
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Three unprecedented events this week — a landmark court ruling against Shell and shareholder revolts at Chevron and ExxonMobil — signalled that investors and society at large have rejected the oil industry’s early attempts at joining the low carbon transition and are looking for much more radical action. Oil majors retain good access to capital markets, but the clock is ticking. Jon Hay reports.
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Belarus this week gave investors a chance to demonstrate the ESG credentials they are often so keen to trumpet. Few took it. Although the country’s sovereign bonds sold off in the wake of the controversial arrest of a journalist on Sunday, investors gave a number of reasons why issues such as human rights violations were no deterrent to buying an issuer’s bonds. But there are signs those excuses may not hold up for ever, writes Mariam Meskin.
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Inside the office of Spondoolicks Emerging Market Bond Fund, May 24.
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A Dutch court has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell is partly responsible for climate change and must reduce its global carbon emissions — including those caused when customers burn its products — by 45% from 2019 levels by 2030. If the ruling is sustained on appeal it would cause a seismic shift in the balance of power on climate change, with huge implications for financial markets.
