Cleantech Supply Chain Issues Threaten Transition
Stockholm (NordSIP) – A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlights some of the potentially serious supply chain risks as the world...
Positive Tipping Points to Boost the Transition
Stockholm (NordSIP) – Tipping points are normally associated with the very worst-case climate scenarios, for instance the potential weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning...
Facing Up To The Polycrisis
Stockholm (NordSIP) – Language needs to adapt to unprecedented situations, hence the rise in the number of neologisms over the last few years. Hans...
UBS Lunch Returns to Stockholm with FI Insights
Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Thursday, November 10th, UBS Asset Management held its UBS ETF European Investment lunch at Grand Hotel in Stockholm, following a...
Article 9 Funds Still Falling Short
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Since the launch of the EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) in March 2021, fund managers have started aligning their product...
Did Green Assets Drag Down Value Stocks Over the last Decade?
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Despite the coninued popularity of sustainable investments in general and green bonds in particular, one of the main barriers standing in...
When a Single ESG Score Isn’t Enough
Stockholm (NordSIP) - As ESG factors continue to rise in popularity, the task now facing sustainable asset managers is how to sort the wheat...
La Française Spotlights Climate-Aware Strategic Asset Allocation
Stockholm (NordSIP) – For most professional asset managers, integrating climate-related considerations into the investment process is a purely bottom-up exercise. Equity and, increasingly, even...
Investors and Academics Join Forces Against Greenwashing
Stockholm (NordSIP) – On June 30, 2022 NordSIP reported on Eurosif’s concerns regarding the confusion generated by Financial Market Participants (FMPs) tending to use...
Valuing Nature Through Multiple Lenses
Stockholm (NordSIP) – NordSIP’s coverage of the implications of biodiversity and natural capital for institutional investors has been ramping up over recent months in...
Phenix Calls Impact Investors to Action
Stockholm (NordSIP) – For a decade now, investment consultant Phenix Capital has continuously monitored the evolution of the impact fund universe, striving to equip...
Equities and Europe Dominate Sustainable Funds
Stockholm (NordSIP) -Â According to a recent study on sustainable investment funds by Morningstar and zeb, a leading strategy, management and IT consultancy based in...
Northern European Asset Owners’ ESG Priorities Laid Bare
Stockholm (NordSIP) – The main sustainability-related priorities and frustrations of Northern European institutional investors are highlighted in a survey commissioned by American Century Investments...
AP7 and KBIGI Review Water Impact
Stockholm (NordSIP) - In their quest to facilitate environmental and societal benefits on top of financial returns, impact investment strategies face several challenges imposed...
Survey Focuses on a Renewed Appetite for Impact
Stockholm (NordSIP) – Asset owners polled on behalf of UK-based ESG analytics platform GaiaLens are struggling to put their increased social focus into practice. ...
The Road to Child-Friendly Tech Is Paved with Good Intentions
Stockholm (NordSIP) - Companies often like to use images of happy children in their marketing campaigns, but how many back up their slogans with...
CDP Calls for Transparent Transition Plans
Stockholm (NordSIP) – Global non-profit disclosure platform CDP is reputed to hold the largest environmental database in the world. The scores that the organisation...
Public Equity Impact Requires Rigorous Approach
Stockholm (NordSIP) – The UN has estimated that annual investments of somewhere between $5 trillion and $7 trillion are needed to have any hope...
Working Transition into the Equation
Stockholm (NordSIP) – One of the key challenges within sustainability is how to translate the excellent work being done in academia into effective, widespread...