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索引匆忙将绿色债券推向主流
With their recently launched indexes, three financial institutions help prime the growing market for inflows from a new group of investors.
在未来的任何账户中的崛起绿色债券市场,2014年下半年将值得特别注明。在此期间,三个主要金融机构启动了致力于债券的指数,该政府和公司发出的替代能源基础设施,公共交通和其他打击气候变化的项目。
S&P Dow Jones Indices kicked things off in July by debuting two green bond indexes, Bank of America Merrill Lynch released one in late October, and British bank Barclays and index provider MSCI partnered on a family of offerings that launched in mid-November.
索引匆匆揭示了金融业正在绿色债券上的银行业务,因为它成为一个突出的买家的空间。
“What an index does is bring in a whole new class of investor,” says Sean Kidney, co-founder and CEO of the London-based Climate Bonds Initiative, a nonprofit that advocates for broader adoption of green bonds. “It brings in the more-passive investor, which is important to continue to fuel demand for green product.” So far, Kidney says, the bulk of investors have been institutional players like insurers, pension funds and corporate treasuries.
投资者通常需要基准,以衡量自己的资金表现。纽约菲尔·普利特(Phil Galdi)纽约全球债券指数研究负责人在Bofa Merrill Lynch表示,他的公司的客户一直要求对他们的越来越多的绿键控股进行比较,因此银行因其指数而作出回应。“这有助于合法化资产类别并为资产类别建立轨道记录”,“Galdi票据”。
客户对索引的需求已被拿起,因为绿色债券发行人的数量和多样性在投资激增中扩大。根据气候债券倡议,今年已经出现了350亿美元的发行,超过了2013年的110亿美元的三倍。肾中表示,2015年,年度计数达到1000亿美元。
虽然公司最近推出了索引see the same bright future for green bonds, in an effort to distinguish their own brand, they’ve each defined and demarcated the asset class differently.
标准普尔产品包括两个不同的指标。S&P绿键指数由标有绿色的债券组成,并正式包含在绿色债券宇宙中,这些债券宇宙如气候债券倡议正在跟踪。标准普尔绿色项目债券指数持有未标记为绿色的债券,但由于其气候友好,公司认为适当的纳入。此产品适用于基于项目和资产的贷款,其大部分债券与可再生能源项目相关联。
第一个指数粘在三倍和双级键,而Triple-B和双b-minus之间的第二次将范围。推出两个独立索引背后的假设是,随着绿键市场的成熟和扩展,绿色标签也会如此。
“绿色标签是在过去几年发生的创新,自绿色债券原则的出现以来,我们看到了一些正在访问资本池但没有标记为绿色的资产,”Anadi Jauhari说基于康涅狄格州康涅狄格州的新兴能源与环境的创始人和高级董事总经理,这是一家专门从事绿色基础设施投资的替代投资公司。EEE的信用和研究联盟,Infracredit是创建标准普尔绿键指标的顾问。
标准普尔还拥有最广泛的新产品条件标准。没有尺寸或流动性限制,但资格债券的成熟必须至少为一个月。“这是包容性的,”伦敦全球股市高级总监Julia Kochetygova说,S&P道琼斯指数的全球股市高级总监。“如果我们真的想讲述整个市场的故事,那就是最好的方法。否则你总是可以将它骰子骰子。“
相比之下,BOFA Merrill Lynch绿键指数仅包括用于特定项目的所谓的生育绿色债券;它不允许由纯粹的债券,由气候集中于一般资本筹集的一家集中币颁发的债券。其最低优惠尺寸为250万美元,用于美元计价的纸额和2.5亿欧元(31.11亿美元)欧元问题。
The MSCI-Barclays family of 59 green bond indexes does allow pure-play green bonds as long as the company issuing them generates at least 90 percent of its revenue from one of five climate-focused categories: alternative energy, energy efficiency, pollution prevention and control, sustainable water and green buildings. Eligible use-of-proceeds bonds must also target at least one of those areas. The minimum dollar- and euro-denominated bond sizes for the MSCI-Barclays indexes are $250 million and €300 million, respectively.
“There is a minimum-issue size for inclusion in the index because ultimately we’re looking for this to be an investable or replicable universe,” says Brian Upbin, head of benchmark index research at Barclays in New York.
新绿色债券指数的远大人士表示,这些标准可能会随着时间的推移而变化。气候债券倡议的肾脏预计市场将在中国商业银行在今年年底推出该国首次绿债后,市场将迈出重大一步。到2015年底,他补充说,中国可以占全球发行的三分之一。
“The market is still in a nascent stage, so some of the market standards and conventions are still evolving,” EEE’s Jauhari says. “There’s still a lack of consensus as to what constitutes green.”