The Asset Management Exchange (Ireland) Limited has launched a tax transparent common contractual fund for Storebrand Asset Management, the Nordic manager which has NOK1,058bn (USD120bn) AuM in both private and public markets. AMX provides the fund structure, the management company and the operational set-up, and facilitates the tax reclaim process. This enables UK pension funds…
Category: ESG
TMF appoints ESG director
TMF Group, a Netherlands-based fund and corporate services provider, has appointed Flavia Micilotta as director, ESG solutions. Prior to joining TMF, she led the sustainability practice at Deloitte in Luxembourg. Before that she was director of the Luxembourg Green Exchange. She will report to Andrew O’Shea, global head of fund services.
BNY Mellon adds MSCI ESG ratings to collateral management
Collateral management clients using BNY Mellon‘s electronic collateral schedule manager, RULE, now have the capability to digitally express their ESG preferences by leveraging ESG ratings and indexes. The firm’s U.S. clients are able to take advantage of these same ESG eligibility capabilities by updating their schedules using current U.S. methodology. The functionality draws on MSCI…
Intertrust launches ESG service for PE managers
Intertrust, the Netherlands-based provider of corporate and fund services, has launched an ESG data gathering and analytics solution. The service offers private fund managers an integrated approach to collecting and analysing ESG data and managing ESG risk in their portfolios.
Greencoat taps Langham Hall for U.S. energy funds
Greencoat Capital LLP, a UK-based infrastructure manager dedicated to the renewable energy sector, has launched its U.S. operations as it opens offices in New York and Chicago. Greencoat aims to invest USD5bn in the U.S. over the next 5 years, in addition to the USD500m already invested in wind farm portfolios in Texas and Illinois.…
FSBA to deploy BNY Mellon’s ESG app
The Florida State Board of Administration (FSBA) has signed an agreement to leverage BNY Mellon’s ESG Data Analytics application to better manage, monitor and analyse ESG data across multiple sources. The application is built on the Microsoft Azure cloud and offered through BNY Mellon’s OMNI securities services platform. FSBA will also be collaborating with BNY…
FundRock appointed as ACD for new Octopus fund
FundRock Partners, part of the Apex Group, has been appointed as the Authorised Corporate Director for a new UK fund, FP Octopus UK Future Generations Fund, operated and managed by Octopus Investments. This is Octopus’ first retail fund with a sustainable investment mandate.
SS&C launches ESG platform
SS&C has launched its ESG reporting solutions platform, which will support compliance with the EU’s SFDR and deliver greater insights and transparency into ESG portfolio risks. SS&C has partnered with Sustainalytics to create investor transparency, carbon risk and sensitive sector exposure disclosure reports. The platform scans managers’ underlying data against Sustainalytics’ ESG dataset based on…
Equity Trustees appointed as RE for new ‘deep green’ fund
Equity Trustees has been appointed as a responsible entity (trustee) for Haven Wealth Partners, which has launched its first fund in the Australian market with a focus on ‘deep green’ ethical investing. The Haven Wealth Partners Ethical Absolute Return Fund is a value-focused ethical absolute return fund, which applies stringent positive and negative screens to…
Manaos onboards two ESG data providers
BNP Paribas Securities Services’ ESG marketplace, Manaos, has onboarded two new partners – Util and V.E., part of Moody’s ESG Solutions – to supplement its sustainability data and analytics offering. Now live on Manaos, Util’s machine learning models quantify the degree to which every listed company positively and negatively impacts the 17 UN SDGs and…