Green-bond insights: investors should have skin in the game, key market player insists

Investor and intermediary participants in the Australian domestic market's latest green-bond transaction identify increasing demand for deals beyond specialist socially responsible investment (SRI) portfolios. Nor should it be necessary for green bonds to price tighter than vanilla bonds to grow the green bond market – in fact, one investor insists this is a product in which the buy side should have skin in the game.