Category: ETFs

Global insurance firm MAPFRE Group has teamed up with impact investment specialist Global Social Impact (GSI) to launch the Global Social Impact Fund, which aims to raise €50m for high social impact companies in both frontier and emerging markets. Initially, the vehicle will invest in short- and medium-term debt from companies in sub-Saharan Africa; with the hope to later expand into Latin America. It will focus on three sectors: agriculture, energy, and financial inclusion. GSI will manage the fund with support from Santa Comba and MAPFRE Group as its leading investors, while MAPFRE AM, the Group’s asset management company, will act as an investment advisor.

Qontigo has launched two new families of EU-Compliant Climate Benchmark Indices: The STOXX Paris-Aligned Benchmark (PAB) Indices and the STOXX Climate Transition Benchmark (CTB) Indices. Both track the performance of liquid securities from a selection of underlying STOXX Benchmark i…