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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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

EMPEA Report Identifies PE Role in Boosting SDGs

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Private Equity’s Role in Delivering the SDGs: Current Approaches and Good Practice, a new report from EMPEA, the global industry association...

Hedge Funds Increasingly Adopting RI: Report

Stockholm (NordSIP) - From niche to mainstream: Responsible Investment and hedge funds, a new report from the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and the...

An Overlooked Approach to RI & Commodities

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In contrast to public equities and an increasing number of asset classes, responsible investment is not yet particularly well defined in commodities....

The Long and Short of Sustainable Hedge Funds

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At this year's Nordic Hedge Award ceremony, which is held in Stockholm and rewards the best hedge funds included in the...

European Utilities: the Long, the Short and the Green

Stockholm (NordSIP) - This week, we had the opportunity to sit down over lunch with Eric Melloul, European utility specialist at New York-based Electron...

Ethics of Shorting – Rooted in Capitalism and Democracy

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - For those of us who work with hedge funds on a day-to-day basis, going short is as natural a concept as...

Swedes Commit to Impact Boutique

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On December 11, Sonanz, a new boutique fund manager based in Munich, Germany, announced the launch of its first fund Sonanz...

Nordic Capital takes sustainable stake in Nordax Bank

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Nordic Capital, the private equity investor with approximately €10bn in AUM focused on building stronger sustainable companies covering the Nordic region,...

New Report on Sustainability in Alternative Assets

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Sustainability in Asset Management: The Knowledge Foundation’s Assessment of Alternative Assets, a new report written by NUWA Director Dr Emma Sjöstrom,...

Sustainability a No-Brainer for Infrastructure

Stockholm (NordSIP) - By definition, infrastructure is a long-term investment and investing with this type of horizon requires more than the usual financial analysis....

Man Group Becomes PRI Signatory at Group Level

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Man Group, the active investment management firm, announced today (September 20) that it has become a signatory to the UN Principles...

Beta Can Be Smart AND Responsible

Stockholm (NordSIP) - During a recent visit to Stockholm, Yves Choueifaty, CEO of the French smart-beta asset manager TOBAM, described the motivations behind the...

FIM Launches “FIM Forest” Fund in Sweden

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Finnish Emerging Markets specialist FIM Asset Management is launching FIM Skog (“FIM Forest”) in Sweden this fall, a brand new fund...

ECAF Kicks Off Annual Crowdfunding Research Seminars

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The European Centre for Alternative Finance (ECAF), the Utrecht University research centre that takes as its central objective to guide the...

PRI DDQ Converting Hedge Funds, One Step at a Time

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The PRI association held an event today (Tuesday, June 20) in Stockholm to promote the launch of a dedicated ESG due...

Man Group names Desmyter Head of Responsible Investment 

Man Group today announced the appointment of Steven Desmyter (pictured) as Head of Responsible Investment and Chair of Man Group’s Responsible Investment Committee. This...

Environmental ETFs Surge on Trump Climate Abnegation

Stockholm (NordSIP) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s climate policies are predictably riling a good chunk of the civilized world, but ETF’s dedicated to environmentally...

AP2 Invests USD 50m in TPG’s Rise Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) AP2, Sweden’s Second AP pension fund with SEK 300 billion in AUM, has invested USD 50 million in The Rise Fund, a...

At HCP, CSR & ESG Two Sides Of The Same Coin

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Finnish global asset management firm Helsinki Capital Partners (HCP) is a company with a vision on a mission. With three funds under...

Saving the Environment and Improving Your Portfolio with Real Estate

Buildings account for about a third of total carbon emissions globally. This presents a real opportunity for investors who seek to maintain a diversified...

PRI Launches Hedge Fund ESG Due-Diligence Questionnaire

Stockholm (NordSIP / HedgeNordic) The UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the global body with the mandate to promote global responsible investment, has launched the...

Infranode Invests SEK 100M in Renewable Energy Firm Eneo

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Infranode, the Sweden-based investment platform with a focus on long-term investments in infrastructure in the Nordics, has announced it has invested...

“Shower of the Future” Receives Zennström Boost

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As previously reported, Niklas Zennström, cofounder and former CEO of Skype and one of the world’s foremost “Angel Investors” via his $1...

ESG Integration in Short Selling

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Portfolio managers of Appleseed Capital, a Chicago based  asset manager, published a white paper on "ESG Integration in Short Selling." In...

Skype Founder On Lookout For Sustainable Start-ups

Stockholm (NordSIP) Skype founder Niklas Zennström is betting on a  convergence of the future of the tech industry with the preservation of  the environment...

Women-Led Hedge Funds Outperform, Despite Prejudice

  Stockholm (HedgeNordic) The HFRI Women Index has returned an average of 4.4% over the past 5 years, outperforming the 4.2% return of the HFRI...

Mobilising the industry for a positive environmental impact

Adam Sweidan, CIO of Aurum Funds, discusses the Hedge fund industry’s potential to be a genuinely positive force for environmental change. Introduction For the majority of...

The Multi Strategist´s Conundrum

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In July 2016, the Swedish hedge fund group Brummer & Partners became a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible...

Summa Equity closes first fund at SEK 4.5 billion

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Summa Equity, a young private equity manager based in Stockholm and Oslo, just announced the closing of its first fund at...

Sustainable Investing in Alternatives

Stockholm (NordSIP) – With interest in Socially Responsible Investment and Economic, Social and corporate Governance exploding over the past decade, and academic evidence abounding...

Special Report: Sustainable Investing in Alternatives

Stockholm (NordSIP) - With interest in Socially Responsible Investment and Economic, Social and corporate Governance exploding over the past decade, and academic evidence abounding...

Steven Desmyter talks about Man Group’s commitment to ESG

Stockholm (HedgeNordic / NordSIP): Man Group’s Head of Sales for EMEA, Steven Desmyter talks about Man Group’s commitment to ESG across its Investment Management...

Playing sustainability from the long and the short side

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In May of 2016, Swedish hedge fund shop Atlant Fonder launched a new hedge fund investing only in equities and corporate bonds...

BlueBay launches ESG HY fund suiting Norwegian PKH

Stockholm (NordSIP) - London based hedge fund giant BlueBay has partnered withNorwegian pension fund PKH and consultancy Mercer to establish a new high yield fund that...

Northern Trust launches sustainable real estate index

Northern Trust Asset Management, collaborating with GRESB, the global sustainability benchmark for real assets, has launched a unique sustainable real estate index. A Dutch-domiciled...

How to implement sustainable investing – the IPM way

Offering sustainable investment is first and foremost about ensuring investors that moral values and negative externalities, as well as financial aspect, will be taken...

QQM Going the extra green mile

Being one of the pioneers among Nordic hedge funds to adapt its investment strategy to ESG guidelines, QQM fund management announced its negative screening...

Corporate Governance – In Finland and the Nordics

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - The nordic region often punches above its weight when it comes to various global lifestyle and economic rankings. For its size,...

Aurum wins “Best ESG/SRI Fund of Hedge Fund”

Aurum Fund Management Ltd won the inaugural “Best ESG/SRI Fund of Hedge Fund” award at the Hedge Funds Review European Fund of Hedge Fund...

Scandinavian, independent, ESG, CAT Bond Investing

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - The company name Entropics is derived from the word “entropy”, from the world of physics, which indicates a consistent increase over...

When Returns are a question of Life and Death – Ethics of Life Insurance

Stockholm (Nordsip) - Investing in life insurance policies can yield attractive risk-adjusted returns while procuring welcome diversification to any portfolio. Many potential investors however...

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