RBC BlueBay Asset Management bought the World Bank’s Rhino Bond, as BlueBay Asset Management, and its Amazon Reforestation-Linked Outcome Bond [MS].

Right of reply

This page describes RBC BlueBay only through its published statements and the public records of the deals listed. RBC BlueBay has not yet been invited to comment. Responses and corrections will be recorded here with their date. On register pages, [MS] marks a claim that rests only on the institution’s own statement or on statements by parties to the same deal.

In the register

The register follows instruments whose terms depend on a verified ecological outcome, the broad family of the performance-based bond. The register index explains its tiers, roles and claim tags.

DealYearFamilyRoleAmountClaim
World Bank Wildlife Conservation Bond (Rhino Bond)2022Outcome-linked bondInvestorNot disclosed[MS]
World Bank Amazon Reforestation-Linked Outcome Bond2024Outcome-linked bondInvestorNot disclosed[MS]
World Bank Clean Cooking Outcome Bond (Ghana)2025Outside scopeInvestorNot disclosed[IC]

References

Provenance

Drafted on 15 October 2026 from the research brief Nature performance bond investors.md, compiled the same day from five research strands: outcome-linked and sustainability-linked bonds, environmental impact bonds, debt-for-nature conversions, insurers and reinsurers, and the largest asset managers with their regulatory context. Claim tags follow the brief, which never upgraded a claim without a source and lowered to [MS] any claim a research note had graded [IC] on the strength of a company’s own release. The headquarters country in based_in comes from general knowledge unless a deal record states it, and is to be confirmed. The brief’s search had limits: fund holdings filings, municipal bond disclosures and the Oxford INDIGO and Brookings impact bond databases were not searched, so a deal missing from this page may exist.