This year’s GIIN Impact Forum was full of fascinating discussions and valuable insights. I was particularly encouraged by the panel with Velliv which stressed...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the start of July, Schroders published it first impact report, providing a comprehensive summary of the impacts delivered by the...
Stockholm (NordSIP) – Managers with the right set of skills have long been providing private equity opportunities that offer measurable environmental, social and governance...
Stockholm (NordSIP) – For a decade now, investment consultant Phenix Capital has continuously monitored the evolution of the impact fund universe, striving to equip...
Stockholm (NordSIP) – Obligo Investment Management AS, a Nordic alternative asset manager specialising in sustainable infrastructure and real estate, continues to leverage its local presence...
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...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Late last year, the Swedish House of Finance revealed the recipients of the Hans Dalborg Award 2022 for excellence in research...
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...
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,...
Stockholm (NordSIP) – Danish philanthropic organisation Realdania is looking to expand their mission-related investments to over DKK 1 billion by 2026. The team has...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to the latest annual impact fund universe report from Phenix Capital, an impact investment consulting firm, there was a considerable...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - One of the first impact funds to be incorporated under Article 9 of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the directive's...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - The International Finance Corporation, IFC, seems like an obvious choice to deliver the keynote message about sustainable investing in emerging markets...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - SEB Life & Pension announced it would invest SEK100 million in Norrsken Venture Capital Fund 1 (NVCF1). NVCF1 focuses on supporting...
In 2020, impact opportunities are easier to find and more accessible than ever for asset owners. The definitions are clearer, the goals are tangible...
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...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - At last week's (online) Copenhagen Fintech Week conference, Implement Consulting Group released a new report titled “Deciphering the Nordic Impact Map”....
Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the popularity of sustainable assets continues to grow despite COVID-19, entrepreneurial investors seeking to explore the most advanced opportunities offered...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Although the Coronavirus outbreak forced Phenix Capital to postpone its Impact Summit Europe conference at the end of March, the impact...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Investors have committed €116 billion to impact investments in developed countries, according to the Global Impact Platform, a proprietary database of...
Even in Nordics, where sustainable investing has become mainstream, the word impact sounds a little intimidating.
Those for whom impact is the most unattractive don't...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to the second edition of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)’s survey released on Tuesday, January 21st, impact measurement and...
Stockholm (NordSIP) – Robert Rubinstein (pictured) has been running the worldwide conference and impact foundation TBLI, which stands for “Tripple Bottom Line Investing” for...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Swiss-headquartered global wealth manager UBS raised US$ 225 million from its private clients for the KKR Global Impact Fund, the institution...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Sarah Gordon has been appointed as the first CEO of the Impact Investing Institute, a new and independent organisation aiming to...
Stockholm (NordSIP) – “We, as institutional investors, have violated the first principle of finance,” warned Sony Kapoor (Pictured), Director of Re-Define, at a recent...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - On April 2nd, Phenix Capital released its first Impact Investing Asset Owner Trend Report. The report considers the relevance of impact...
Stockholm (NordSIP) – In a bold move, the Velux Foundations recently decided to explore impact investment as a viable opportunity. NordSIP reached out to...
Stockholm (NordSIP) – On Thursday, February 7, Antoine Prédour, Head of Energy Debt at responsAbility Investments AG, discussed the innovative impact investment opportunities available...
NordSIP (Stockholm) – As demand continues to grow for sustainable investment opportunities, one of the main hurdles facing investors is the difficulty to consistently...
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....
Stockholm (NordSIP) – An increasing number of asset managers are talking about ”impact” investing, including those that mostly manage very liquid equity strategies. Historically,...
Stockholm (NordSIP) – Denmark will host the P4G summit in Copenhagen on the 19th and 20th of October, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen reiterated...
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...
Stockholm (NordSIP) – BlueOrchard, a Swiss-based impact asset manager, recently obtained the permission from the Swedish FSA (Finansinspektionen) to market its Microfinance Fund to...
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...
Stockholm (NordSIP) – An increasing number of Danish asset managers are honouring the demand for sustainable investment products by developing digital investment solutions on...
Stockholm (NordSIP) – The European Investment Bank (EIB) last week signed a €40 million loan with Kemira Oyj, a global chemicals company headquartered in...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Local investors in the Törneby Solpark (solar park) at the Kalmar Öland airport in Småland are discovering that solar energy is,...
Stockholm (NordSIP) Denmark Environment and Food Minister Esben Lunde Larsen (V) led a delegation of 40 Danish business leaders to the United Arab Emirates...
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,...
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...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Finnish Minister of Environment, Energy and Housing Kimmo Tiilikainen visited with Moroccan Minister of Energy, Mining and Sustainable Development Aziz Rabbah...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Speaking to CNBC’s Akiko Fujita at the World Economic Forum last week in Davos, Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen took...
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...
Stockholm (NordSIP) - A joint fund, supporting renewable and clean energy solutions as well as climate projects in developing countries, has been set up...