It also raised $702 million from its first-ever bond sale last year.
But in a boost to the fund's legitimacy, the BRIC economies Brazil, Russia, India and China—have all agreed to contribute to its coffers by subscribing to its first-ever bond issue, to the tune of $80 billion.Equally important, the fund has been on the cutting edge of the global policy response.
Tech investors may cheer Microsoft's first-ever bond issue, despite troubled sales forecasts and turbulent credit markets.
A year later, the World Bank followed suit, and by 2017, over $155 billion worth of public and corporate green bonds had been issued, paving the way for the Seychelles government to issue the first ever "blue bond" last year— a $15 million bond to fund marine protection and sustainable fisheries.
All told, there are some 70 actresses who have appeared opposite the six Bond actors in over 21 films (including the most recent, Casino Royale, starring the first ever towheaded Bond, Daniel Craig).
Elba's position as potentially the first ever black Bond was recently criticised by American rightwing radio host Rush Limbaugh who said: "He was white and Scottish.
Cape was also the publisher of the first ever official Bond novel following Fleming's death in 1964, when Kingsley Amis wrote Colonel Sun as Robert Markham in 1968.
AT THE beginning of April international investors made two whopping bets by snapping up the first ever 100-year bond denominated in euros.
At the end of July my organisation, the St Giles Trust, celebrated the success of the world's first ever Social Impact Bond (Sib), when we announced that our work with 2,000 offenders had yielded a dividend of 3% for investors.
