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Finnish Companies Advance Biodiversity

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In a significant stride towards environmental responsibility, companies have shown notable progress in integrating biodiversity initiatives into their operational frameworks, according...

FTN to Chisel Away at US Equities

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On September 24, the Swedish Fund Selection Agency (Fondtorgsnämnden, FTN) announced the launch of a procurement for US equity funds and...

Norway Hopes Caterpillar Spat is at an End

Stockholm (NordSIP) - When Norway's sovereign wealth fund, Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), announced its divestment from Caterpillar on account of the US company's...

Ørsted and Two US States Sue Trump Amid Rights Issue

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Thursday, September 4th, Revolution Wind, a joint venture between Danish windpower company Ørsted and a consortium led by Skyborn Renewables,...

AP7 Reviews Conflicts Exposure

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following questions about AP7's exposure to companies contributing to human rights violations in the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza...

Varma Continues to Push For Female Representation

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In its latest annual equality survey of the boards of listed companies in which it invests, Finnish pension provider Varma found...

FTN Announces Swedish Fund Selection

Stockholm (NordSIP) – On 27 August, the Swedish Fund Selection Agency (FTN)  announced the outcome of its procurement process for actively managed and passive...

Northern Lights Starts Storing CO2

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Carbon capture technologies have attracted entrepreneurs who wish to use profit-seeking to galvanise the necessary resources to clean the air we...

NBIM Reviews Israeli Investments

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In light of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza, Norway’s Finance Minister requested that Norges...

KLP Targets Companies Supplying the IDF

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The final recourse for sustainable investors who cannot get through to companies via their engagement efforts is to exclude these businesses...

Swedfund Invests in Bangladesh

Stockholm (Nordsip) - When considering where to invest for impact, investors often channel their funds towards developing countries, where they can find high additionality...

Storebrand AM Excludes Toyota

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Storebrand Asset Management has announced it will begin excluding Toyota Motor Corporation from investment from the second quarter of 2025 due...

Varma Opens the Door to Controversial Weapons Investments

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The tumult brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, followed by Donald Trump's affinity for Putin and dithering about the...

Finnish Companies Not Afraid of Trump on Sustainability

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to a Corporate Pulse survey, commissioned by OP Financial Group and carried out by Taloustutkimus Oy, Finnish companies remain committed...

Ilmarinen Decreases Listed Investments’ Carbon Intensity

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Ilmarinen, one of Finland's top pension insurance companies, published sustainability data for the first time as part of its annual report....

Sweden’s Riksdagen Merges AP Funds

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the Swedish government's proposal to reduce the number of AP funds and tighten the competence requirements for the boards the...

FTN Opens New Swedish and European Small-Cap Tender

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Swedish Fund Selection Agency (Fondtorgsnämnden, FTN) announced it was open to tenders for the procurements of actively managed Swedish and European...

Storebrand Resists DEI Push Back

Stockholm (NordSIP) - While the last five years saw sustainable institutional investors focus on discerning genuine green commitments from greenwashing, the tide has turned....

Where Defence and Sustainability Meet in Finland

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The ongoing global geopolitical realignments and associated emerging uncertainties demand that responsible investors acquire new skills and learn to navigate the...

Swedish Agencies Issue RFP for Sustainability Systems

Stockholm (NordSIP) - This week, the Swedish Pensions Agency (Pensionsmyndigheten) together with the Swedish Fund Selection Agency (Fondtorgsnämnden) (FTN), announced the procurement of two...

Söderberg & Partners Green Lights Sustainable Leaders

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Söderberg & Partners has published its annual Traffic Lights report singling out the best players in the Swedish financial industry in...

Scania Buys Northvolt’s Battery Factory

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In the latest development in the restructuring of Northvolt, the company announced it was selling the Northvolt Systems Industrial division, a...

Nordic Borrowers Remain Committed to Sustainable Bonds

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the peak issuance of 2021 fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, 2024 saw global sustainable debt issuance return to positive annual...

Nordic Institutional Investors Seek Natural Capital Strategies

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Global Fund Search (GFS) has published a request for proposals (RFP) according to which Jenzten & Partners is searching for global...

Exploring Nordic Ocean Opportunities

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Covering three-quarters of the surface of our planet, oceans are crucial for life on Earth. They help regulate the climate, provide...

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...

Is NBIM Failing its own Climate Action Plan?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - With the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015 and the launch of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainable investments...

AP4 and Invesco Highlight Climate Metrics

Stockholm (NordSIP) -Given the evolving climate reporting landscape and the wide and complex range of metrics available to investors, environmental disclosures remain a topic...

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...

Stamdata and Datia Partner for Better Financial Data

Stockholm (NordSPI) - One of the most often repeated concerns of financial experts regarding their ability to productively contribute to the transition agenda is...

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....

PKA Leaves Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At a time when ESG and sustainable investments have come under attack, a trend has emerged for investors to trim their...

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...

A Transition Smörgåsbord from Almedalsveckan

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Between June 25th and June 28th, Sweden's political, finance and business elites flocked to Almedalen, a small park in Visby, the...

Share of Women on Boards Slightly Down

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Since 2003 AP2 has conducted an annual survey to determine the proportion of women at middle management level, in executive positions...

NIB Stops Excluding Defence Industry

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the start of June, the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) announced it had decided to stop excluding defence investments. According to...

Nordic Investors Reiterate Support for Climate Action 100+

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The first quarter of 2024 was marked by a number of prominent departures by US investors from Climate Action 100+, including...

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...

FTN Selects 6 European Art. 8 Equity Funds

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On March 25th, the Swedish Fund Selection Agency (Fondtorgsnämnden or FTN) awarded procurement agreements for actively managed European large/mid cap equity...

Who Cares About Vegetable Oil Spills?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 16 March, a major spill of soybean oil occurred in the port area of Karlshamn in southern Sweden. AAK, formerly...

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...

Swedish FSA Inspects Taxonomy Implementation

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The EU’s Taxonomy Regulation, the pioneering classification system defining sustainable economic activities and one of the cornerstones of the union’s Action...

Norwegian Exclusions

NordSIP (Stockholm) - Public exclusion remains one of the most efficient ways for investors to influence companies that do not listen to their sustainability...

Sweden Has a Plan

NordSIP (Stockholm) - Just before Christmas, on 21 December, the Swedish government presented the country’s new climate action plan. Eagerly anticipated, the plan has...

Who Gets the Green Light by Söderberg & Partners?

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Swedish consultancy Söderberg & Partners has been reviewing the sustainability performance of the country’s largest pension funds annually for ten years...

Storebrand Recognised as Sustainability Leader by Dow Jones

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The annual rebalancing and reconstitution of Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) is now over, and the results have been officially announced,...

Danish Financial Institutions Need to Score Better on Human Rights

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Despite paying lip service to the ‘S’ in ESG, Danish financial institutions still appear incapable of demonstrating that they include human...

Norway’s Parliament Endorses Deep-Sea Mining

Stockholm (NordSIP) – On 5 December, after weeks of intense negotiations, Norway’s centre-left government announced that it had reached an agreement with opposition parties...

Norwegian Impact

Stockholm (NordSIP) - A country does not have to be big to make a significant positive impact globally, as a newly published survey by...

Danish Pension Funds’ Fossil Fuel Dilemma

Stockholm (NordSIP) - A recently published paper by ActionAid Denmark (Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke) has reignited the debate over Danish pension funds’ investments in fossil fuel companies....

PKA Invests in Sustainable Swaps

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to a press release by Osmosis Investment Management, Danish pension provider PKA has invested approximately US$1 billion in a new swap...

Swedish AP Funds Under Scrutiny, Again

Stockholm (NordSIP) – On 23 October, the Swedish government announced the launch of a new investigation into the governing activities of the National Pension Funds...

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...

LF’s First Dark-Green Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Swedish insurer Länsförsäkringar (LF) has just revealed the name of its first fund to be incorporated under Article 9 of the...

Varma’s Emission Targets Validated by SBTi

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Nordic institutional investors continue to lead the way in aligning their emission reduction goals with the Paris Agreement objectives through the...

Sweden Backtracks CO2 Emissions Goals

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Wednesday, September 20th, Swedish Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson (Pictured) announced its revised budget plan for 2024. In what the government...

Swedish Watchdog Takes on Greenwashing

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Regulators and supervisors worldwide are ramping up their efforts to curb greenwashing in the financial sector and increase asset managers’ accountability....

AMF in Latest Northvolt Funding Round

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to the IEA’s Sustainable Development Scenario, for the world to meet climate and sustainable energy goals, close to 10 000 gigawatt-hours of...

Danske Bank in Nuclear Hot Water?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following reports from Danish financial media, NordSIP has confirmed that Danske Bank is listed as part of an international group of...

Nordea Downgrades Diversity Fund to Engage with Companies

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 4 August, Nordea Asset Management (NAM), announced the recategorisation of Nordea 1 - Global Gender Diversity Fund from the more...

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...

And the CFA Sweden ESG Award 2022 Goes To…

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Swedish CFA Society’s Annual Forecast Dinner has become a firmly established tradition to look forward to, despite being disrupted by...

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...

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