climate change

New Virgin Money research suggests more than half of advisers are willing to pour their own money into green funds.

Allianz is hoping its new RCM Global EcoTrends fund can ‘clean up' as tighter regulation controls drive prospects in global environmental solutions.

The European Commission has pledged €60bn a year to cut green house emissions 20% by 2020.

HSBC Investments is set to launch a global fund investing in firms addressing climate change.

Schroders is set to launch a Global Climate Change fund which will open to investors in September 2007, subject to FSA approval.

Querying asset managers about their approach to climate change risk is definitely a reasonable action on behalf of clients, given the link to investment risk, says Nick Robins, head of SRI funds at Henderson Global Investors.

Specialist VCT Ventus says its plan to fund development of small-scale wind farms has attracted £4.2m in cheques ahead of the end of the fiscal year.