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Providing Bespoke Sustainability Solutions

As the landscape for sustainable finance continues to evolve, the preferences of institutional investors become increasingly detailed and specialised. To assist clients with their...

SLB Handbook at the Rescue

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On the occasion of the publication of the ‘Sustainability-Linked Bond Handbook: A practitioner’s guide’ by the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII), NordSIP...

Meet ODIN’s New Head of ESG in Sweden

Stockholm (NordSIP) - A month into his new assignment as Head of ESG for Norwegian boutique asset manager ODIN Fonder’s Swedish branch, Nikolay Burdakov...

A Sámi Take on Just Transition

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Most responsible investors in the Nordics recognise the challenging balance between the simultaneous needs to accelerate the green transition and uphold...

A Man on a Mission: Conflict Minerals

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Tin, tantalum, tungsten, cobalt, gold – these are some of the indispensable ingredients that are powering the green transition. Unfortunately, most...

“Much More Needs to be Done to Reach Net-Zero”

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the financial industry continues its journey towards climate change mitigation it can often appear as though every old hurdle that...

Transparent Nordic ESG Data for All

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Access to high-quality ESG data is often quoted by responsible investors as one of their biggest challenges. Sourcing, cleaning, and validating...

Looking for Biodiversity Champions

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Investment firm Federated Hermes Limited is known for its commitment to nature. The asset manager has been running an Article 9...

Kaasinen Veers Towards Banking

Stockholm (NordSIP) - After more than fifteen years of working with responsible investments, most recently as Engagement Director at the Council on Ethics of...

IMAS New CEO: a Man on a Mission

Stockholm (NordSIP) – IMAS is one of a trio of foundations, alongside INGKA and IKEA, established by IKEA’s visionary founder, Ingvar Kamprad. While all...

Celebrating Excellence x 2

Stockholm (NordSIP) – As always, the end of the year provides plenty of occasions to look back, sum up, and celebrate achievements. It is,...

Forever Sustainable Gains Another Investment Expert

Stockholm (NordSIP) – In the last couple of years, combined consultancy, think-tank, and professional network Forever Sustainable has attracted several talented professionals, such as...

What is the Link Between Energy and ESG Investing?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Wednesday, November 20th, a group of Swedish investors gathered at Nobis Hotel to hear from Paul Jackson, Global Head of Asset...

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...

KLP Goes to China

Stockholm (NordSIP) – For a sustainable asset owner, investing in China presents a conundrum. The country often holds the key to solving the global climate...

Sustainability Veteran Joins Penser

Stockholm (NordSIP) - One of the early champions of ESG in the Swedish finance industry, Christina Kusoffsky Hillesöy, the newly appointed Head of Sustainability at...

Meet Church of Sweden’s New Head of Sustainable Investing

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Late last year, sustainable investing veteran Gunnela Hahn left the Church of Sweden after a decade and a half of leading...

Norling Goes Private

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Less than a week into her position as Impact Director at Summa Equity, Emelie Norling seems already remarkably at ease in...

Storebrand: An Insurer’s Climate Perspective

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The dual exposure to climate risk that insurance companies have through their underwriting activities and their portfolio investments adds another level...

Nordea Sustainability Veteran Returns ‘Home’

Stockholm (NordSIP) – It is time for the next step in Katarina Hammar’s career, less than a year after joining Lannebo as Head of...

Nordea’s Climate General in Action

Stockholm (NordSIP) – At the beginning of the year, Nordea, the Nordic region’s biggest bank, announced the establishment of a new Climate and Environment...

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...

Existential Questions for a Sustainable Trailblazer

One of the early trailblazers in Swedish sustainable investing, Gunnela Hahn, joined Nordea last autumn leaving behind the Church of Sweden where she spent...

Lundström Targets Next Level for Skandia’s Sustainability

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the beginning of June, Swedish pensions and insurance giant Skandia announced they had found a new Head of Sustainability. As...

Can Article 9 Funds Find Impact Through Banks?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - During a year when banks have run afoul of financial markets and policy-makers, it is understandable that most asset managers focused...

Sticking Up for Sustainability at a Time of Green Hushing

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On the occasion of his recent visit to Stockholm at the end of April, NordSIP had the opportunity to meet with...

Moving On to Something Real

Stockholm (NordSIP) – “I am delighted to step into my new role as CEO of Hvitsten AS and excited to join the team to...

Norsif’s New Chairman Ready for Challenges Ahead

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Norsif, the Norwegian Sustainable Investment Forum, has just elected a new board chairman. After leading the organisation in an exemplary manner...

With Sustainability on her Heart

Stockholm (NordSIP) – “First, I want to know a little more about you” is not an unusual start for an interview. Except, this time,...

Tackling Governance in India’s Renewable Energy

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As part of our ongoing interest into how sustainable investors can navigate the opportunities and challenges of the Indian economy, we spoke...

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...

Biodiveristy & Climate Transition in Focus for AP1 ex-CIO

After reporting in January that Mikael Angberg had left his post as CIO at Swedish state pension fund AP1 to pursue new adventures, we...

Pathways to Impact

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Independent European alternative asset manager Golding Capital Partners recently launched its first impact offering, a private equity fund-of-funds focused on renewable energy,...

Carbon Offsets: The State of Play

The beginning of the year has seen the carbon offset markets seething with controversy as breaking stories have cast doubt on its effectiveness. Some...

Schroders’ New Sustainable Head Aims for More Visibility

Stockholm (NordSIP) – “I love it when a plan comes together,” says Willem Schramade, Schroders’ new Head of Sustainability, Client Advisory, as NordSIP catches...

Forever Gains Another Sustainability Expert

Stockholm (NordSIP) – “Great excitement!” That is how Karin Reuterskiöld herself describes her latest career move on LinkedIn. Catching up with her in the...

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...

Brandywine Global’s Pragmatic Take on Sustainable Fixed Income

Barcelona (NordSIP) – The PRI in Person conference provides ample opportunities to meet sustainability experts from all over the world and pick their brains on...

Scoring with SEB Investment Management

Barcelona (NordSIP) - The Nordics didn’t grab any of the prestigious PRI Awards this year. Nevertheless, NordSIP is sufficiently impressed by the fact that...

Trill Impact Set on Creating Real Impact

Barcelona (NordSIP) - Despite tough competition, two Nordic PRI signatories made it to the nominees’ shortlists for the prestigious PRI Awards this year. Alas,...

A New Sustainable Thematic Approach to Rule Them All?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In a turbulent world, reeling from financial crises, pandemics, geopolitical risks, and high inflation, investors are increasingly pressed to find innovative...

Meet BlackRock’s Nordic Head of Sustainability

Stockholm (NordSIP) – In June this year, BlackRock announced several high-profile hires across its sustainable investing team in Europe, appointing simultaneously regional sustainability experts...

An ESG Manager Intent on Sustainability

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Chicago-based V-Square Quantitative Management LLC (V-Square), a global asset manager and sustainability analytics platform, has been around for a couple of...

Norron’s Path to Sustainability

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Norron Asset Management, a boutique founded in 2010, has established a reputation among Nordic clients for being professional and committed. With...

Using Sustainability to Lever Long-Term Returns

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Boasting more than four million customers, Swedbank Robur is a household name in Sweden. So far, the asset manager has been...

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...

Kaasinen’s New Council on Ethics Engagement Role

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Sweden’s four National Pension buffer funds (AP Funds) were originally set up to generate better returns through healthy competition.  Over the...

The Appeal and Hope of Almedalsveckan

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As schools and offices prepare to close for the Summer holiday across Sweden, Almedalsvekan (Almedal week) brings the country's political and...

Sustainability in Focus for Folksam’s New Chief Economist

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Just ahead of the summer holidays, Swedish pension and insurance provider Folksam revealed that they had appointed Marcus Svedberg to the...

Lannebo Recruits Sustainability Leader

Stockholm (NordSIP) – After more than sixteen years at Nordea, Katarina Hammar recently revealed that she would be moving on to take up a...

Meet Handelsbanken AM’s New Head of Sustainability

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following four years as an ESG Investment Analyst at Skandia Liv and 11 years as Senior Engagement Manager and Senior ESG...

From Transylvania to SEB – The Conquest of a Sustainable Transition

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Amidst the current boom in Chief Sustainability Officer appointments and ESG-related product launches, it is refreshing to encounter a dose of...

UBS’s New Head of EMEA ESG Advisory to be Based in Stockholm

Stockholm (NordSIP) - After thirteen years at EQT, Therése Lennehag recently announced that she is leaving the firm to join UBS Investment Bank as Head...

Bitterling Finds His Perfect Match

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Private equity firms are no longer exempt from the scrutiny of ESG-aware professional investors. Increasingly, they see the need to up their...

Feldt Goes 100% Sustainable

Stockholm (NordSIP) - It might have come as a surprise to many when Nordea’s Head of Community Engagement and former Head of Sustainability, Erik Feldt,...

Towards a More Visible and Transparent Navigera

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Navigera, the fund management arm of leading Swedish insurance broker Max Matthiessen, has just made a high-profile hire. At the beginning of...

Dutch Acquisition to Strengthen Goldman Sachs’s Sustainability Credentials

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The wave of consolidation across the asset management sector continues as firms seek to scale up operations. It came hardly as a...

Af Donner Meanders Towards Friendly Activism

Stockholm (NordSIP) - After several years of promoting AXA Investment Management in the Nordics and successfully expanding the firm’s presence in the region, at...

Agenta’s New CEO: Sustainably Pragmatic

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the beginning of March, Ylva Schullström joined Agenta Investment Management as CEO, stepping up a notch from her latest senior...

Moret Looks at the World Through an ESG Lens

Stockholm (NordSIP) – With a thirty-year commitment to social, environmental, and financial integrity, Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) has developed considerable expertise in sustainable...

Chasing Time and Forming Minds

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Late last year, the Swedish House of Finance revealed the recipients of the Hans Dalborg Award 2022 for excellence in research...

AM’s Sustainability Key Factor for Asset Owners Says ESG Pioneer

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Despite the popularity of sustainable investments, the multitude of available approaches to responsible investing can leave market participants confused. In this spirit,...

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...

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