Cutting through labels’ noise in the sustainable bond market: the merits of a research-driven framework – Morgan Stanley Investment Management

The Calvert Fixed Income Team actively engages with green bond market players to promote robust sustainable financing frameworks that help effectively catalyse capital towards environmentally and socially impactful projects, transparent disclosures, and reporting.

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With a steady supply of labelled green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds (ie sustainable bonds) having built up over US$3.6tn in outstanding value globally, sustainable investors can tap into a universe that has reached critical mass, improved liquidity and lowered pricing trade-offs versus vanilla bonds compared to the early days of these labels.

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