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No Article 9 Among FTN’s Latest Nordic Mandates

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Swedish Fund Selection Agency (Fondtorgsnämnden, in Swedish, or FTN) has awarded the procurement eight Nordic funds to five asset managers...

FI Approves Alecta’s Next Chairman

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to a press release issued by Alecta, the Swedish occupational pensions manager has received the decision from the Swedish Financial...

Decision Made: Two AP Funds to be Merged Away

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the end of June 2024, the Swedish government published a review of the Swedish pension fund buffer system which argued...

Varma Recognised as Sustainability Leader

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At a time of retreating ESG confidence, committed sustainable investors continued to highlight their sustainability credentials despite the idiosyncracies of popular...

NBIM Endorses Semi-Annual Reporting

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Management, as is also the case in other broader economic matters, is often concerned with balancing disparate needs. To solve these...

AP7 Invests in IFC’s Biodiversity Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Biodiversity has been one of the main sustainable themes of 2024. Bond markets has been an important avenue through which the...

Folksam Adds SEK 3bn in Green EM Infrastructure

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On December 11, 2024, Folksamgruppen (Folksam) announced an investment of SEK 3 billion in the Copenhagen Infrastructure Growth Markets Fund II....

Most Transparent Pension Funds Ranked

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global has been ranked as the most transparent fund in the world. The sovereign wealth fund,...

Danish Pensions Support New Biodiversity Standards in Construction Industry

Stockholm (NordSIP) - AP Pension's real estate arm AP Ejendomme, together with PensionDanmark, and the Danish Planetary Responsibility Foundation have launched a collaborative initiative...

Varma Returns to Japanese Low Emissions

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On November 5th, Varma announced an investment of €500 million in Japanese low-emission companies via a new, exchange-traded fund (ETF) tailored...

AP7 Adjusts ESG Unit as it Updates Climate Action Plan

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In the middle of November, AP7 published the third update to its Climate Action plan, the Swedish public pension fund's main...

Akademiker Pension Responds to Critique on Tax Haven Bond Investments

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In a recent press release, AkademikerPension responded to criticism from Finans.dk regarding their investment in government bonds from countries on the...

Doctors’ Pension Pushes for Climate Action

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Lægernes Pension is strengthening its climate-focused initiatives by actively engaging with the world’s largest banks and major CO2-emitting companies. As part...

NZAOA Report 6% Emissions Decrease

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) announced its 88 members, representing US$9.5 trillion in assets under management (AUM), had achieved average...

AP3 Focused on Biodiversity and Injuries & Fatalities

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Shortly after the publication of the AP funds’ interim reports for 2024, NordSIP caught up with Fredric Nyström, Head of Sustainability...

Deforestation, China & Stewardship Dominate AP Funds Work

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the end of August, the Swedish National buffer funds AP1, AP2, AP3 and AP4 all published their half-year interim reports....

Nordic Demand for SFDR Mandates Accelerates in Q2

Stockholm (NordSIP) - While the fortunes of AI companies appear to have brought global markets back to their means during the summer, institutional investors...

Danish Doctors’ Taiwanese Wind Project

Lægernes Pension, the €16 billion pension scheme for Danish doctors has invested approximately €53 million in a Taiwanese wind farm.  The Changfang-Xidao project is...

Danish Pension Funds Commit Over €150m to Environmental Restoration

Stockholm (NordSIP) - AP Pension, Lærernes Pension, and Sampension have collectively committed over €150 million (approximately DKK 1.1 billion) to the American fund Ecosystem...

AP4 Bets on Sustainability Themes

Stockholm (NordSIP) -  While some responsible institutional investors are busy debating the pros and cons of divestment vs. engagement, others focus on driving positive...

Danish P+ Opts to Divest

Stockholm (NordSIP) – At the end of last year, Danish pension fund P+ announced its decision to divest from ENI and Repsol, bidding farewell...

Industriens Pension Introduces Climate-Focused Benchmark for Foreign Equities

Industriens Pension has announced the implementation of a new benchmark, the MSCI Climate Action Indexes, for its foreign equity investments, emphasising companies with a...

AP Pension Selects a Stewardship Partner

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Active ownership is a key tenet of sustainable investing. Yet, as most responsible asset owners would agree, it can be quite...

Oil Divestment Advocate Quizzes AP7

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Sweden’s $105 billion AP7 has been fending off increasingly vocal criticism in the local media over its oil and gas related...

AP Pension Finds New CIO Committed to Sustainability

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Danish AP Pension has been on the lookout for a new Chief Investment Officer since June this year when it became clear...

Lærernes Pension’s Exclusions Under Scrutiny

In 2022, Lærernes Pension, a Danish pension fund with over 150,000 members, faced criticism from Danish media and the Consumer Council (Forbrugerrådet Tænk) for...

Changing Focus at the Council on Ethics

Stockholm (NordSIP) – For responsible investors in the Nordics and beyond, the Council on Ethics, the joint corporate engagement arm of four of the...

AP3 Tackles Human Rights

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Since establishing a dedicated sustainability team and appointing Fredric Nyström as Head of Sustainability and Governance in May 2022, the Third Swedish...

Industriens Pension Sets 2025 Goals for Reducing Investment Emissions

Industriens Pension has announced specific climate goals for 2025, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across its investment portfolio. The initiative is part of...

The Art of Procuring Sustainable Funds

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Since its launch a little over a year ago, the Swedish Fund Selection Agency (Fondtorgsnämnden, or FTN), responsible for selecting funds...

Ilmarinen Seeds Largest ETF Launch in USA

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the start of April, Ilmarinen reported it had seeded the Xtrackers MSCI USA Climate Action Equity ETF, which was listed...

AP4 and JPM AM Look at Biodiversity Solutions for Investors

Stockholm (NordSIP) – In recent years, biodiversity has become a key theme for sustainable investors and the recognition of the risks attached to its...

Investors Demand More from Tech Giants

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Swedish state pension finds AP1, AP2, AP3 and AP4 and their joint sustainability arm, the Council on Ethics (AP-fondernas etikråd), already...

Focusing on What Truly Matters at AP3

Stockholm (NordSIP) – In recent years, the Third Swedish National Pension Fund (AP3) has demonstrated growing sustainability ambitions, increasing its efforts to act as a...

AP Funds Council of Ethics Powers on with New Head

Stockholm (NordSIP) – 2022 has been a busy year for the joint corporate engagement arm of the Swedish National Pension Funds 1, 2, 3,...

NBIM Steps Up Activism and Clarifies Adani Stance

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Climate laggard companies beware, Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which handles the EUR 1.2 trillion Norwegian Pension Fund Global, has got...

Wind of Change Blows at AP1

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As Swedish state buffer pension fond AP1 has been busy reorganising after the departure of star fund selection duo Majdi Chammas...

Lærernes Divests From Mining Companies Over Human Rights Abuses

According to Danish investigative press Danwatch, Lærernes Pension has decided to divest its 11 million DKK investment in the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold,...

AP7 Finds Replacement for Gröttheim

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The rotation at the top of the Swedish National Pension Funds continues. Earlier this year, AP3’s board replaced long-time CEO Kerstin...

Sustainability Veteran Takes on a Challenging Role at SFSA

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The office of the newly established Swedish Fund Selection Agency (SFSA) is gradually taking shape, and key positions are quickly being...

Swedish Council of Ethics Searching for an Executive Director

Stockholm (NordSIP) – It has been over a year since the Swedish National Pension Funds 1, 2, 3, and 4 announced that they were...

Investors Lose Patience with VW’s Lobbying

Stockholm (NordSIP) – For several years now, a group of institutional investors, including the Swedish public pension funds AP7, AP2, AP3, AP4, Danish AkademikerPension...

NBIM Has a Plan, a Climate Action Plan

Stockholm (NordSIP) – As sovereign wealth management funds go, Norway’s trillion-dollar Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), managed by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), is right...

AP7 Veteran to Step Down

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The rotation at the top of the Swedish National Pension Funds continues. Just as AP3’s board has managed to find a...

Seasoned Fund Selectors Join SFSA

Stockholm (NordSIP) – This summer has been certainly busy at the newly instituted Swedish Fund Selection Agency, SFSA (Fondtorgsnämnden). It was only in May...

PFA Challenges Meta

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Nordic investors have long been among the most vocal critics of the sustainability shortfalls of tech giants. Among institutional investors who...

Mistra Adds Sustainability Expert to its Asset Management Committee

Stockholm (NordSIP) – It has been only a couple of months since Fredric Nyström joined the Third Swedish National Pension Fund (AP3) as Head...

AP3 Finds a New CEO

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Third Swedish National Pension Fund’s (AP3) search for a new CEO to replace long-time veteran Kerstin Hessius is over. On...

AP7’s Blacklist Grows

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Sweden’s Seventh AP Fund (AP7), the state alternative to the private investment funds offered within the country’s premium pension system, is...

Danish Pension Giants Join Forces in a Quest for Unlisted ESG Data

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Complaining about the availability and quality of ESG data is commonplace among institutional investors striving to integrate sustainability aspects into their portfolios...

Swedish AP Funds Held to a Higher Standard

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Since 1 January 2019, Sweden’s first four National Pension Funds (AP Funds 1, 2, 3 and 4) have a new objective...

Who Can Fill Hessius’s Shoes?

Stockholm (NordSIP) – On 1 March, the Third Swedish National Pension Fund (AP3) announced that Kerstin Hessius, who has been the fund’s CEO for...

AP3 Poaches Head of Sustainability from Öhman

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Third Swedish National Pension Fund (AP3) announced in November last year that they would be ramping up their sustainability ambitions,...

Realdania and Ninety One Team Up for Impact 

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Danish philanthropic organisation Realdania is looking to expand their mission-related investments to over DKK 1 billion by 2026. The team has...

New PRI Board Director with an Ambitious Agenda

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Just a week into his role as Board Director at PRI, Wilhelm Mohn, Global Co-Head of Corporate Governance at the Norwegian...

Realdania Chooses NN IP for Passive Mission

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In 2021, Danish philanthropic organisation Realdania intensified its endeavour to boost investments in which financial returns and philanthropy go hand in...

AP3 in Search of New Head of Sustainability

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Third Swedish National Pension Fund (AP3) announced on November 16, that they are establishing a dedicated sustainability group, ramping up...

Nobel Foundation Seeds M&G’s New Credit Strategies

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Investors’ appetite for sustainable credit is growing steadily, and attentive asset managers seem only eager to oblige. On October 25, M&G...

Howchin Leaves Amidst Council on Ethics Restructuring

In a press release, the first, second, third and fourth AP funds announced on October 15 that they have decided to conduct a strategic review of the Council on Ethics. Meanwhile, John Howchin, at the helm of the Council as Secretary-General for almost 12 years, announced his departure.

AP6 Targets Sustainability

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Sweden’s Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP6) has always been the less-known sibling in a family of national pension funds that...

KLP’s New Head of RI Embraces Diversity

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Earlier this month, Norwegian pension giant KLP announced promoting senior analyst Kiran Aziz to Head of Responsible Investments. Aziz is hardly...

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...

AP7 Joins TNFD

Stockholm (NordSIP) - AP7 has announced Johan Florén, Head of Communications and ESG, and Flora Gaber, Head of ESG Analysis, will be representing the...

Swedish Institutional Investors Launch Integrity Forum

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In an apparent effort to address  Peace, Justice and strong institutions (SDG 16) and Partnerships (SDG 17), AP1, Folksam, SEB Investment...

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