EU Taxonomy Regulation
The Taxonomy is a critical tool that will assist issuers, project promoters, investors and other financial market participants in identifying sustainable, enabling and transitional economic activities. The regulation requires asset managers to disclose the proportions of their Taxonomy-compliant “green asset ratios” in funds with sustainability objectives and characteristics.
Asset managers will rely upon investee companies’ reporting against the technical screening criteria introduced by the Taxonomy. Given that these criteria will be fundamental in guiding the investment decisions of asset managers and, increasingly so, of public authorities, they should allow for a sufficiently broad investible universe, including transitional activities. EFAMA has also contributed to the development of industry-relevant Taxonomy Key Performance Indicators for financial and non-financial undertakings.
EFAMA comments European Commission's Taxonomy Proposal (Sustainable Finance Package)
EU needs a usable, investor-centric and globally relevant social taxonomy
EFAMA responded to a public consultation of the Platform on Sustainable Finance on a social taxonomy.
Brown taxonomy: An opportunity to transition away from significantly harmful activities
EFAMA responded to a public consultation of the Platform on Sustainable Finance on taxonomy extension options linked to environmental objectives.
EFAMA welcomes proposed transitional period under Art. 8 of the taxonomy and calls for its alignment with SFDR taxonomy-related product disclosures
EFAMA has published its response to a consultation on the draft delegated act under Article 8 of the Taxonomy.
The European ESG market in Q1 2021 – Introducing the SFDR | Market Insights | Issue #7
This report breaks down the size of the European ESG market, reviewing the assets under management of funds using the SFDR (Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation) framework.
Market Insights | Issue #4 | ESG investing in the UCITS market: a powerful and inexorable trend
The report looks at the major trends in the ESG UCITS market, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and the behaviour of ESG and non-ESG funds.
EFAMA Market Insights | Issue# 3 | Sustainable Investment in the European Asset Management Industry
For this Market Insights, EFAMA collaborated with its member associations and strategy consultants at INDEFI to estimate the level and nature of ESG investment by European asset managers at the end of 2019, distinguishing between the ESG strategies applied at the firm level and those applied at the level of individual fund and discretionary mandate. The assets under management covered in the report include EUR 12.5 trillion of investment fund assets and EUR 11.4 trillion of mandate assets.*