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Schroders and Apple Launch New China Renewable Energy Strategy

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As one of the largest economies and most populous countries in the world, asset managers see China as an unavoidable partner...

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...

Danish Investors Support EM Private Debt

Stockholm (NordSIP) - For investors seeking to make the most impact towards a better future, the growth prospects provided by private market investments in...

M&G and responsAbility Launch New Article 9 Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Swiss impact asset manager responsAbility and British asset manager M&G launched the M&G responsAbility Sustainable Solutions Bond Strategy, a fund focusing...

Fidelity Launches New Blue Transition Bond Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Oceans and other bodies of water cover two-thirds of the planet and are crucial for our ecosystems, controlling weather patterns and...

Varma Seeds New GHG Reduction ETF

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Global asset management firm Invesco, has partnered with Finnish pension insurer Varma to launch the Invesco MSCI Global Climate 500 ETF...

Schroders Announces New European Equity Impact strategy

Stockholm (NordSIP) -  Global asset manager Schroders announced the ISF European Equity Impact, a strategy created in response to investor demand for impact-driven investment...

Invesco Launches Blended Finance Climate Adaptation Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Global asset manager Invesco launched a new blended finance vehicle that seeks to help investors support climate change adaptation efforts in...

Four Triodos IM Funds Available on Fondo

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In an effort to broaden the availability of its investment funds, Triodos Investment Management has made four Article 9 SFDR of...

Capital Launches SDG-themed Funds

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Three new funds launched by US asset management firm Capital Group promise access to a broad range of sustainable investment themes. ...

Investing for Liberty

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Most investors dread geopolitical tensions and the uncertainty fostered by autocracies, having experienced first-hand the negative consequences of investing in non-democratic...

BlueOrchard Completes Second Closing of PE Climate Insurance Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As climate change continues to beat temperature records, and at a time of increasing resistance to mitigation efforts, international financial cooperation...

Ilmarinen Anchors New USA and Japan Climate ETFs

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Ilmarinen, the Finnish mutual pension insurance company, invested €2 billion in a new passive climate-focused iShares ETF in the USA and...

AP7 Partners to Launch New Transition Strategy

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As investors seek to aid companies in their sustainability journey, focus on the energy transition is foremost on everyone's mind. To...

Investing in SDG 6 with Artic Water?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to estimates cited by the OECD in 2018, achieving SDG 6, “Clear Water and Sanitation”, could require trebling global investment...

Capital Dynamics Launches Future Essentials III

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Capital Dynamics, an independent global private asset management firm, announced on March 22nd the launch of Capital Dynamics Future Essentials III...

United Bankers Launches Green Forest Industry PE Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As sustainable investors look forward to a year of continued focus on biodiversity, forestry is likely to remain an important sector....

A Healthy New Addition to the Article 9 Fund Family

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The introduction of Level 2 of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) at the beginning of the year has seen...

AXA Launches Plastic & Waste Transition Equity Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) – According to data by the OECD and related research, the world produced nearly 460 million tonnes of plastic in 2019, much...

Man Group Lands First Article 9 Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Man AHL, Man Group’s diversified quantitative investment engine, announced the launch of Man AHL TargetClimate, its first UCITS fund classified as...

EIF Supports €2.5 Billion Investments Across 5 Sustainable Funds

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the COP27 climate conference, the European Investment Fund (EIF), signed investments totalling €247 million to enable five equity funds to back...

Capital Dynamics Closes Clean Energy Fund Above Target

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to Morningstar, global sustainable funds expericed US$32.6 billions of inflows during the second quarter of 2022, bringing their total amount...

Fidelity Joins Fight to Preserve Biodiversity

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Preserving the planet’s biodiversity has been steadily climbing up the priority agenda of many investors in recent years. Hopefully, the movement...

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...

Schroders Finds Partner for Investing in Nature

Stockholm (NordSIP) – According to Conservation International, we could count on nature to provide 30% of the action needed to avoid the worst effects...

NN IP Bets on Social Bonds

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Companies, governments, and government-related entities are increasingly issuing social bonds to finance projects that contribute to society with a neutral or...

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...

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...

Varma Invests in Japanese Low-Emissions

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 20 April, Finnish pension insurance company Varma announced a €300 million investment in Japanese companies through Nomura Asset Management's NEXT...

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...

Museum to Help Federated Hermes Protect Biodiversity

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Biodiversity protection is gradually becoming one of the major sustainability themes for 2022. That said, for investors eager to put their...

New Art 8 Funds Land in the Nordics

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Due to the disclosure requirements imposed on large publicly listed companies and the increasing share of those that pertain to ESG,...

Robeco Launches SDG Low-Carbon Indices

Stockholm (NordSIP) - A new sustainable index family saw the light of day on 24 February, the Robeco SDG Low-Carbon Indices. As implied by...

Aviva Looks Beyond Climate Change

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Guided by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), asset managers seem increasingly eager to tackle a broader range of sustainability...

AXA Launches Social and Sustainable Bond Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On February 15h, AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) announced the launch of the AXA WF ACT Social Bonds fund that aims...

Investing in Equal Opportunities, the Storebrand Way

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Storebrand’s family of solutions-oriented thematic funds just got bigger. On 11 February, the asset manager launched a new Article 9 fund,...

Blue Investments in Focus Ahead of COP15

Stockholm (NordSIP) - An often overlooked aspect of environmental investments, the biodiversity of our planet's oceans is gaining prominence, no doubt at least in...

Jupiter Ups Fixed Income ESG Ambitions

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Asset managers seem eager to respond to the increasing demand for sustainable fixed-income products. There is a notable push to integrate...

New Sustainable Food and Water Fund Springs Up

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), while world hunger is on the rise, an estimated 1/3 of all food...

New Fund Hopes to Bridge EM Investment Gap

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to the UNCTAD's World Investment Report 2014, emerging markets require over US$2.5 trillion in additional yearly investments in financial inclusion,...

S&P DJ Launches two New Net-Zero Indices

Stockholm (NordSIP) - S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI), a leading index provider, announced the launch of the S&P Net Zero 2050 Climate Transition Select...

T. Rowe Price Launches First Impact Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - This week, global asset manager T. Rowe Price, responsible for overseeing US$1.6 trillion in assets, launched the Global Impact Equity Fund, designed...

JPM AM in Nutrition Fund Partnership

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Credit Suisse, in partnership with J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPM AM) launched a nutrition fund , which invests in companies that...

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...

Triodos Launches New Emerging Markets Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On the eve of the COP26, Triodos Investment Management announced the launch of a new renewable energy emerging markets fund. The Triodos...

BlackRock Integrates EU Benchmark Into Paris-Aligned ETFs

Stockholm (NordSIP) - BlackRock, in partnership with MSCI, announced it was upgrading the methodology to include the European Union’s (EU) Climate Transition Benchmark (CTB)...

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...

Finnish Investors Support BlueOrchard Sustainable Assets Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - BlueOrchard announced the first closing of the BlueOrchard Sustainable Assets Fund (BOSAF), which will invest in green infrastructure projects in emerging and...

SEB Launches Dark Green Global Climate Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the IMF argued in its recent Global Financial Stability report, the investment fund industry has a crucial role to play...

FTSE Russell Unveils New US ESG Indices

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Investor demand for ESG products has led to an 88% increase in ESG/SRI funds since 2018, thank to sustained inflows into...

New Active ESG ETFs Tradable on Xetra

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to Deutsche Börse, two new Active ETFs issued by J.P. Morgan have been tradable on Xetra and Deutsche Börse Frankfurt...

Swedbank Robur Launches Article 9 Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Swedbank Robur announced the launch of a new Climate Impact fund classified as “dark green” (Article 9) under the EU Sustainable Finance...

AP1 Seeds New Climate Change High Yield Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Motivated by the increased incidence of extreme weather events, the rising threat they pose and the urgency underlined by the latest...

UBS AM Launches New Article 8 Small Cap ETF

Stockholm (NordSIP) - UBS Asset Management (UBS AM) launched a sustainable exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracking the MSCI World Small Cap SRI Low Carbon Select...

New Fund Zooms In On Innovation

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The successful strategic partnership between American Century Investments and Nomura Asset Management continues to bear fruit with the recent launch of a...

KGAL Launches Dark Green Impact Fund

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...

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...

BlackRock Extends Paris-Aligned Range

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the end of July, BlackRock added two new funds to its Paris-Aligned ETF range to cater to clients interested in...

BlueOrchard Secures Second Close of Covid-19 Support Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Although many financial institutions in emerging and frontier markets have weathered the Covid-19 pandemic, the crisis threatens decades of progress made towards...

Lyxor and Invesco Feed Appetite Across Risk Spectrum

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the start of July, two trends conspired to bring new focus to the ESG Green bond market. On the one...

Growing Risk Appetite Brings New EM ESG ETF

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the market's appetite for risk continues to improve in light of the continued economic recovery following the mass vaccination of...

State Street Global Advisors Launches HY Article 8 Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - State Street Global Advisors, the asset management business of State Street Corporation announced the launch of the State Street Global High...

Schroders and BlueOrchard Unveil New EM Climate Impact Strategy

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to Schroders research, the consequences of climate change are particularly acutely felt emerging markets (EMs) according to a 2016 Moody’s...

Two New SDG-Themed Funds Land in the Nordics

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Responding to growing investor demand for funds that target positive sustainable outcomes, Columbia Threadneedle Investments, a global asset manager, announced the...

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