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Renewable Energy and ABS Financing – How Private Equity and Structured Credit Can Support the Energy Transition in Europe

Investors seeking to ‘green’ their portfolios can draw on a rapidly growing range of listed and unlisted impact equity funds.  However, steering investments towards...

Art. 9 Equity Funds Turnaround in Q4 After Challenging 2023

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The fourth quarter of 2023 saw market conditions improve for sustainable investors, thanks to expectations that monetary policy might deviate from...

Can credit investors really deliver meaningful, measurable impact?

As active managers, we believe in engaging with the companies that we invest in to drive the transition to a sustainable economy. Whether it’s...

Impact With Private Debt in Emerging Markets

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Managers with the right set of skills have long been providing private equity opportunities that offer measurable environmental, social and governance...

Using Sustainability to Lever Long-Term Returns

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Boasting more than four million customers, Swedbank Robur is a household name in Sweden. So far, the asset manager has been...

Invesco Expands Targeted Energy ETF Range

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Renewable energy ETFs are not hard to get by these days, which is fortunate, given the pressing need for investment in...

Danske Finds New Active Ownership Advocate

Stockholm (NordSIP) – “Active Ownership is becoming a more important part of Danske Bank’s responsible investment strategy to both protect the value and address...

Obligo’s New Climate Impact Fund Off to a Good Start

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Obligo Investment Management AS, a Nordic alternative asset manager specialising in sustainable infrastructure and real estate, continues to leverage its local presence...

Schroders’ Engagement Efforts Rewarded

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Schroders’ active ownership initiative, Engagement Blueprint, formally launched in April this year, is already gaining recognition. Revealing their prestigious annual awards...

Northern European Asset Owners’ ESG Priorities Laid Bare

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The main sustainability-related priorities and frustrations of Northern European institutional investors are highlighted in a survey commissioned by American Century Investments...

Sustainable Private Assets – Round Table Insights

Celebrity weddings are well-known for their prenuptial agreements (or “prenups”), which are intended to help the happy couple negotiate the potentially bumpy road ahead. ...

Fink Lashes Out Against Scope 3

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Larry Fink, the outspoken CEO of the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, is a known advocate of sustainable investing. It is...

BlueOrchard Aims for Financial Inclusion

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Founded in 2001 as an initiative of the UN, BlueOrchard became the first commercial manager of microfinance debt investments worldwide. Fast forward...

Kempen’s Bold Move: Blacklists Chinese Assets

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Kempen Capital Management (Kempen), part of Van Lanschot Kempen Wealth Management NV, has a reputation for being a fiduciary manager par...

Bitterling Finds His Perfect Match

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Private equity firms are no longer exempt from the scrutiny of ESG-aware professional investors. Increasingly, they see the need to up their...

Jönsson Steps Up

Stockholm (NordSIP) – On 16 May, Storebrand Asset Management announced that Anna Jönsson is taking over the reins as the firm’s new Head of Institutional...

New Triodos Fund a Welcome Boost for Younger Generations

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The climate crisis, geo-political instability, greater inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic have given rise to serious concerns about the future of...

Greener Ferries Set Sail With Help From M&G

Stockholm (NordSIP) – UK based M&G Investments have agreed to lend NOK 1 billion to Fjord1, the largest and most environmentally-friendly ferry operating company...

BlackRock Oil Emails – Think Before You Send

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Nordsip has been keeping an ESG-focused eye on BlackRock for some time, especially since CEO Larry Fink last year publicly encouraged...

Man Delivers Climate Insights

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As physical investor gatherings still feel like a rare luxury, NordSIP jumped at the opportunity to attend Man Group’s annual breakfast...

IIGCC Shines Light on PE Blind Spot

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) launched on 2 February new comprehensive guidance to help private equity on the...

M&G to Acquire Impact Leader

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The wave of sustainability firms’ acquisitions has grown steadily for a couple of years now, and it looks like it is...

Summa Adds Billions to Private Equity 4.0

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Launched in 2016, Stockholm-based private-equity firm Summa Equity invests in companies contributing to solving the global challenges identified in the UN...

Idun to Combine Growth with Sustainability

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Specialist growth-equity investor firm Verdane reported earlier this month that they are closing Idun I, Europe’s largest growth impact fund to date,...

Storebrand Acts on Deforestation

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Cumulative deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon hit its highest level since 2006 last year. According to official data from INPE (the Brazilian space...

UBS ESG ETF Surge Ahead

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the popularity of sustainable assets continues to increase, the pressure for asset managers to satisfy investor demand leads to a...

Kåpan Finds a Match in M&G Sustainable Loan Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Dedicated sustainable options within the realm of private debt are few and far between. This week, the family got a little...

Sustainable and Transition Credit Investment Opportunities

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the IPCC continues to warn against the dangers of climate change and commitments remain short of bridging the funding gap,...

New Suite of Article 8 ETFs Unveiled

Stockholm (NordSIP) - UBS Asset Management continues to raise the bar and expand its offering of innovative sustainable products to support equity investors' efforts to...

Making an impact in fixed income markets (BNY Mellon)

Rising issuance of green and social bonds is helping to boost the impact bond sector, says Insight Investment fixed income specialist Joe Sullivan-Bissett. As interest...

The World is Not Enough (BNY Mellon)

Current levels of global consumption are putting the world on a collision course with calamity. With change already afoot, how might investors respond? Newton’s...

Fixed income drives new ESG focus (BNY Mellon)

Considering ESG issues in a bond context is a growing area of interest from investors, who are currently contending with a market that looks...

Building back better? (BNY Mellon)

As US President Joe Biden signs a US$1.9trn American Covid-19 rescue plan into law, what environmental benefits can markets expect from the new US...

Quantitative Asset Management and Epidemiology vs. Covid-19

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – All too often in asset management, an ESG approach is geared to pleasing investors, a cheap marketing stunt or just plain...

UBS Launches Global Corporate Bond ESG ETF

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On the heels of last year’s the successful launch of the Global Government ESG ETF, and in response to regulatory and...

Why aren’t markets repricing rising climate risks? (Wellington)

by Chris Goolgasian, CFA, CPA, CAIA, Director of Climate Research at Wellington Management Mark Carney, Bank of England Governor and Former Chairman of the Financial...

Lyxor Green Bond ETF Leads the Way

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Lyxor Asset Management has announced that its green bond ETF has surpassed €300 million in assets under management (AUM), becoming the...

Franklin Templeton Registers 14 ETFs for Investors in Denmark, Finland and Sweden (Press Release)

Stockholm, 2 September 2019 – Franklin Templeton has registered 14 ETFs from its Franklin LibertySharesTM range in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. These 14 ETFs span...

ESG ETF Breaks € 1 Billion Mark

Stockholm (NordSIP) - For the first time, a European ETF focused on ESG investing has passed the € 1 billion mark of assets under...

Storebrand Voted Best Asset Manager (IRRI Nordic Cut)

Stockholm (NordSIP) - With Storebrand Asset Management / SPP Fonder reaching the top of the IRRI Survey's Nordic Cut this week, we asked Robert...

ETFs to Meet Increased Sustainability Demand

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Research shows that investor demand for sustainable investment (SI) and ESG strategies is growing fast. According to the Global Sustainable Investment...

New Funds Fuel Sustainable Inflows in First Quarter

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to a report by Impact Investing, Sustainable Funds received US$26 billion of net inflows in the first quarter of 2019,...

Rockefeller in Nordic ESG Conquest

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Late May, Rockefeller Asset Management, a division of Rockefeller Capital Management, launched a UCITS version of long-standing equity strategies that integrate...

Franklin Templeton Unveils First Active Euro Green Bond ETF

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Franklin Templeton has announced the launch of Europe’s first actively-managed Euro Green bond ETF. The new fund, Franklin Liberty Euro Green...

Value and Engagement in Gender Diversity

Stockholm (NordSIP) - "Time's up for inequality," according to UBS Asset Management's Michael Baldinger, Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing and Valeria Piani, Strategic...

UBS Launches New ESG ETF

Stockholm (NordSIP) - UBS Asset Management (UBS AM) announced it would launch the first ETF to integrate sustainability screening into the S&P 500 Index,...

Hermes Generate Social Impact Through Active Collaborations

Stockholm (NordSIP) – While the sustainable investment industry is increasingly adopting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to guide their impact-seeking investment efforts, Will Pomroy,...

UBS to Offer Project-Focused Investments

NordSIP (Stockholm) – UBS has announced it will launch a pilot program aiming at personalising sustainable investment away from aggregate ESG categories and towards...

Fink’s Letter to the CEO Disappoints Activists

NordSIP (Stockholm) – On January 17, BlackRock's CEO, Larry Fink published his annual Letter to CEOs. Fink called upon the leaders of the companies...

Green Bond ETF Lands in Stockholm

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On January 15, ETF specialist Lyxor International Asset Management listed its first ETF at Nasdaq Stockholm. The €54 million ETF, Lyxor...

Climate Advocates Challenge BlackRock’s Fink

Campaigners wrote an open letter to the CEO arguing BlackRock should take a clearer position on climate change more forcefully than it may be...

Brummer Says No to Nuclear Weapons and Thermal Coal

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Stockholm-based hedge fund manager Brummer & Partners AB, whose flagship multi-strategy fund, Brummer Multi-Strategy (BMS), invests in nine independent hedge funds...

Long, Short and Sustainable

Stockholm (NordSIP) – One late-fall Stockholm afternoon, NordSIP had a chance to sit down with Arnaud Langlois (pictured), Portfolio Manager of the newly launched...

Investing in Family-Owned Businesses Provides ESG Edge

Stockholm (NordSIP) – At the end of November, we had an interesting talk with Ivan Bouillot (pictured), equity fund manager in charge of European...

Swan Spans Wings to Include First Index Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) – This week, we celebrate the first anniversary of the Nordic Swan’s eco-labelling of the first 12 Swedish funds. Since then the...

AP1, Arabesque to Develop new Human Rights Score

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On October 2, Arabesque announced that Swedish state pension fund AP1 will be using its proprietary ESG data tool, the S-Ray....

First Bond Fund to Receive Swan Label in Sweden

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On September 26, Pareto Asset Management obtained the Swan Ecolabel for its Global Corporate Bond fund. To qualify for the Swan...

SPP Real Estate wins GRESB Green Star 2018 Award

Stockholm (NordSIP) – SPP Fastigheter AB (SPP Real Estate) and its management company Storebrand Fastigheter (Storebrand Real Estate) have been crowned European Best in...

Expanding Impact Through Fintech

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On August 30, Swiss-based impact boutique manager responsAbility announced the expansion of its fintech portfolio in Asia. One of the firm's...

Working with fine lines: Amazon Wins Over Ecolab

Stockholm (NordSIP) – On a recent visit to Stockholm, Jamie Jenkins, Head of Responsible Global Equities (pictured right) at BMO Global Asset Management, stopped...

Pacific Hedge Fund Adds Green World Strategy

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Pacific Multi Asset, the Swedish multi-strategy hedge fund managed by Eric Strand, has made changes to its investment approach adding a new...

BlackRock Introduces ESG Emerging Market Debt Suite

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Global asset manager BlackRock announces the launch of a series of UCITS Emerging Market Debt funds that integrate ESG factors, which...

Man Group Doubles Head for Responsible Investment

Stockholm (NordSIP) - This week, global active investment manager Man Group announced a new Co-Head of Responsible Investment. Jason Mitchell (pictured above), previously Sustainability...

DWS: How To Make Portfolio Climate Risks Transparent

The following is a media advisory from DWS: How to make the climate risks in a portfolio transparent Climate change is not an indeterminate, world-wide phenomenon...

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