Joe Marsh

Several senior executives, including two sustainability specialists, have left the UK life insurer ahead of its imminent rebranding as Standard Life.

Anand Rajagopal has left the UK’s biggest life and pensions firm, with no replacement planned.

‘We increasingly judge seriousness around ESG by... underwriting, asset management plans and incentives, rather than by language in marketing,’ says head of infrastructure and private equity Jaime Alvarez.

The Dutch insurer is engaging with GPs more on social aspects of its €12bn real estate portfolio as it mulls increasing its senior and student housing exposure, says portfolio manager Jurriaan Houtman.

How Canada’s IMCO, the UK National Wealth Fund, AXA IM Alts and others are responding to market uncertainty around green technology.

'We are expecting some private equity managers to be investing in this area and we have been scanning their ESG policies,' says SPFF chief executive Timo Löyttyniemi.

Renewable energy and debt-for-nature plays in emerging markets are luring some capital away from US and European assets.

The £11bn endowment outlines inter-related plans for UK housing and renewable energy investment in a report it will release today. Two of its senior executives also gave their take.

The US investment firm has hired the former head of energy and infrastructure equity at a German development bank and selected an Africa-focused asset manager.

As Railpen and Brunel also upgrade their net-zero strategies, the £11bn UK endowment is raising the bar for fund managers on climate risk integration.