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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...

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...

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...

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,...

Impact Investing Where It Is Most Needed

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The International Finance Corporation, IFC, seems like an obvious choice to deliver the keynote message about sustainable investing in emerging markets...

SEB Invests in New Impact Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - SEB Life & Pension announced it would invest SEK100 million in Norrsken Venture Capital Fund 1 (NVCF1). NVCF1 focuses on supporting...

SustainEx Wins Impact Reporting Award

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At this year’s Environmental Finance Impact Awards, on September 14, Schroders was ranked as the top asset manager in impact measurement/impact...

Mapping Nordic Impact Fintechs

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At last week's (online) Copenhagen Fintech Week conference, Implement Consulting Group released a new report titled “Deciphering the Nordic Impact Map”....

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Launches Impact Investing Guide

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the popularity of sustainable assets continues to grow despite COVID-19, entrepreneurial investors seeking to explore the most advanced opportunities offered...

Developed Markets Dominate Impact Funds

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Investors have committed €116 billion to impact investments in developed countries, according to the Global Impact Platform, a proprietary database of...

Requirement for Credible Impact Investor: IMM

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to the second edition of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)’s survey released on Tuesday, January 21st, impact measurement and...

Do or do Not, There is no Try

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Robert Rubinstein (pictured) has been running the worldwide conference and impact foundation TBLI, which stands for “Tripple Bottom Line Investing” for...

UBS Private Wealth Directs Quarter Billion Into KKR Impact

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Swiss-headquartered global wealth manager UBS raised US$ 225 million from its private clients for the KKR Global Impact Fund, the institution...

Opening a Window Into Impact Investing

Stockholm (NordSIP) – In a bold move, the Velux Foundations recently decided to explore impact investment as a viable opportunity. NordSIP reached out to...

Blended Capital to Fund African Solar

Stockholm (NordSIP) – On Thursday, February 7, Antoine Prédour, Head of Energy Debt at responsAbility Investments AG, discussed the innovative impact investment opportunities available...

CISL Updates SDG-based Impact Framework

NordSIP (Stockholm) – As demand continues to grow for sustainable investment opportunities, one of the main hurdles facing investors is the difficulty to consistently...

Private Debt – Scaling Up Impact Investments

by Richard Sherry, M&G Investments Investment is required on a huge scale to address the world’s biggest challenges, such as climate change, poverty and inequality....

ILG Redefines and Quantifies Impact

Stockholm (NordSIP) – An increasing number of asset managers are talking about ”impact” investing, including those that mostly manage very liquid equity strategies. Historically,...

Denmark to Host P4G Summit in October

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Denmark will host the P4G summit in Copenhagen on the 19th and 20th of October, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen reiterated...

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...

AP7 Moves to Implement Green Mandates

Stockholm (NordSIP) – AP7, the largest pension fund in Sweden, is transferring €290 million from stocks deemed to be in violation of the Paris...

Microfinance Opportunity Opens for Swedish Investors

Stockholm (NordSIP) – BlueOrchard, a Swiss-based impact asset manager, recently obtained the permission from the Swedish FSA (Finansinspektionen) to market its Microfinance Fund to...

Clinker Company Invests DKK100m in Renewable Product

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Leca Danmark A/S, a Randers-based company that develops, produces and sells Leca light clinker, a stony residue building material made of...

Mistra Seeds M&G new Private Debt Launch

Stockholm (NordSIP) - M & G Investments launched a new fund this week, which primarily invests in private and illiquid debt which are targeted...

Danish Managers Primed For ESG-Screened ETFs

Stockholm (NordSIP) – An increasing number of Danish asset managers are honouring the demand for sustainable investment products by developing digital investment solutions on...

EIB in €40m Finland Chemicals R&D Investment

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The European Investment Bank (EIB) last week signed a €40 million loan with Kemira Oyj, a global chemicals company headquartered in...

DK to Provide Water Solutions to UAE

Stockholm (NordSIP) Denmark Environment and Food Minister Esben Lunde Larsen (V) led a delegation of 40 Danish business leaders to the United Arab Emirates...

EU Commission Invests €34m in DK, SE Nature Packages

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The European Commission approved a €98.2 million investment package last week (February 9) to support the European transition to a low-carbon,...

Swedfund Aims to Develop Cambodian Microfinance

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Swedish development financier Swedfund is making a loan of $15 million to Prasac Microfinance, Cambodia’a largest microfinance company, for on-lending to...

P4G Green Growth Fund Open for Applications

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The new $4 million P4G Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 Fund spearheaded by the Danish government opened...

Finland Spots Morocco Clean Energy Investment Opportunities

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Finnish Minister of Environment, Energy and Housing Kimmo Tiilikainen visited with Moroccan Minister of Energy, Mining and Sustainable Development Aziz Rabbah...

Denmark PM talks up P4G at WEF

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Speaking to CNBC’s Akiko Fujita at the World Economic Forum last week in Davos, Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen took...

Danish Fund Offers Ecological Investment

Stockholm (NordSIP) Several Danish ecological companies are deciding to invest in the spread of organic farming via a public offering made by Denmark’s Ecological...

Finland Invests in Joint-IFC Development Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - A joint fund, supporting renewable and clean energy solutions as well as climate projects in developing countries, has been set up...