How bond indices can take the grunt work out of identifying greenwashing

To ensure that bond investment - in particular impact-focused bond investment - is free from greenwashing, investors need to do a lot of homework. But following up on the use of proceeds requires bandwidth and the question for smaller Asian asset owners is whether they have the capacity to conduct such heavy due diligence throughout the whole investment cycle.   Debt experts, however, say that utilising bond indices is a simple, and above all free, way of crunching the numbers. Th…