Finance and Investment
The UNEP Finance Initiative, together with its founding partners of The Investor Agenda have today released a new tool to enable institutional investors to step up action to tackle the climate crisis and accelerate the transition to a net-zero economy.
Fitch Ratings has this morning confirmed that it views the outcome of the Anglian Water and Yorkshire Water appeals to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as credit-positive and that the ratings remain unchanged.
The North West’s water company, United Utilities, has attracted huge demand for its first ever sustainable bond issue, which was more than three times over-subscribed.
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First Sentier Investors (FSI), managers of infrastructure assets on behalf of institutional investors in the UK with in excess of £1.2 billion of equity, including an investment in Anglian Water, has told the Competition and Markets Authority it is “disappointed and concerned to see the CMA reversing key aspects of its Provisional Findings”.
Pension funds group IFM Investors (UK) Ltd, one of the largest infrastructure investors globally, is warning the Competition and Markets Authority of its doubts over the stability and long-term attractiveness of the UK water sector.
- PR19 appeals - UK pension funds investors warn UK water sector investment is “perilously close to the edge”
- Dalmore Capital tells CMA: “real sense of nervousness from UK-based investors in investing in UK regulated utilities”
- Canada Pension Plan Investments warns of “marked deterioration in the attractiveness of UK water as an investment proposition”
- PR19 appeals - investor expresses concern over Ofwat's "highly aggressive posture" and "threats of judicial review"
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