Subscribe | Log In

Featured

Tutorials & Events

NordSIP Insights – Child-Lens Investing Handbook

Our children aren't having the childhood we had. Pros and cons, of course. On the one hand, they have more opportunities for learning, the...

Sustainable Investing in Emerging Markets – Round Table Insights

As we enter 2024, the investment landscape in emerging markets defies the notion of “business as usual”. The enduring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Investing in Natural Capital – Round Table Insights

The post-2015 Paris Agreement era has seen the investment community earnestly grapple with climate risk and opportunities. This shift has significantly influenced how asset...

NordSIP Insights – Impact Investing Handbook 2023

In theory, impact investments are supposed to harness the butterfly effect, a modest investment on one end of the world creating a positive ripple...

NordSIP Insights – ESG Integration Casebook 2023

Amidst a storm of criticism and greenwashing allegations, ESG is quickly becoming one of the most controversial acronyms out there. “ESG is the devil,”...

NordSIP Insights – EU Sustainable Finance Regulation Handbook 2023

The tidal wave of sustainable finance regulations is sweeping over Europe. Will it succeed in washing off the fresh coats of green veneer to...

Navigating Towards Net Zero – Round Table Insights

Over the last eight years, the Paris Agreement and the spirit of it have galvinised businesses, investors, regulators and policymakers to focus their efforts...

Thematic Strategies – Round Table Insights

Most professional investors are used to looking at their global equity portfolios through a couple of convenient prisms. Sectors and regions have long been...

Net Zero Transition: A Historic Investment Opportunity

Sustainable investing tended to be associated with negatives like avoiding negative externalities by excluding certain stocks and sectors. However, this picture has changed and...

NordSIP Insights – Sustainable Fixed Income Handbook 2022

How time flies! Five years ago, we published our first ever edition of the Sustainable Fixed Income Handbook, upon request from one of our...

Climate & Biodiversity

In the context of the 15th conference of the parties to the UN convention on biological diversity, convening in Montréal at the beginning of...

Global Fund Search – ESG Leaders 2022

ESG leadership is a status that most asset managers are looking to attain while the vision of regulators and greenwashing vigilantes is becoming sharper,...

Emerging Markets – Round Table Insights

For many risk averse institutional asset owners, Emerging Markets (EM) investing can seem like a bit of a gamble at the best of times. ...

Listed Impact – Round Table Insights

Chicken or egg, what came first? In my experience, when you are hungry, the question is kind of irrelevant. You just want to know...

NordSIP Insights – Impact Investing Handbook 2022

With the powers-that-be at the highest level calling for a global transition to a low-carbon economy, and technological innovations that can help lift millions...

Sustainable Private Assets – Round Table Insights

Celebrity weddings are well-known for their prenuptial agreements (or “prenups”), which are intended to help the happy couple negotiate the potentially bumpy road ahead. ...

ESG in the US Mid Market

The integration of ESG factors into investment management processes, which originally started mainly within listed equities, has gradually made its way right across most...

NordSIP Insights – ESG Integration Case Book 2022

Just as we were congratulating ourselves for surviving a long and exhausting pandemic, the dramatic events of the past few months have re-opened a...

NordSIP Insights – EU Sustainable Finance Regulation Handbook 2022

It is exciting to be a pioneer, breaking new ground, exploring uncharted territory, and looking for vantage points that offer clarity and direction! However,...

NordSIP Insights – Sustainable Fixed Income Handbook 2021

We are wrapping up another undeniably successful year for sustainable fixed income. In 2020, we marvelled at the record-breaking issuance of labelled sustainable bonds...

The Energy Transition – Investment Opportunities in Southern Europe

As the world races towards net-zero CO2 emission goals, the European Union has set an ambitious agenda for the upcoming decades that supports investments...

NordSIP Insights – Impact Investing Handbook 2021

There is enough evidence today to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has both raised awareness and appetite for impact investments. Whether a clear causality...

NordSIP Insights – Transitions & Stewardship Handbook

As the clock ticks relentlessly towards the carbon neutrality deadlines of the Paris Agreement, where before investors argued about the validity of the case...

NordSIP Insights – ESG Integration Case Book 2021

As we get back into a semblance of new normal, post pandemic-related restrictions, it looks like the war against greenwashing has finally gone mainstream....

Factoring ESG into Factor Investing

In this new edition of NordSIP Insights, we explore a somewhat less known area within sustainability: the intersection between ESG integration and factor investing. As...

NordSIP Insights – Investing Sustainably in Emerging Markets

Investing in emerging markets can easily be summed up in two words: potential and risk. Yes, the prospects can be dazzling in those fast-growing...

NordSIP Insights – the EU Sustainable Finance Regulation

When it comes to regulation, no one is ever particularly excited. As Otto von Bismarck reportedly said, laws are like sausages - good to...

NordSIP Insights – Sustainable Fixed Income 2020

Believe it or not, this is our third edition of the Sustainable Fixed Income Handbook. We all remember how 2020 started, the year everything was...

NordSIP Insights – Impact Investing Handbook

In 2020, impact opportunities are easier to find and more accessible than ever for asset owners. The definitions are clearer, the goals are tangible...

ESG in Alternatives

A brand new special report is out on both NordSIP and HedgeNordic this week! It takes you through a wide range of alternative investments...

NordSIP Insights – Sustainable Growth – The Recovery Handbook

In this new edition of NordSIP Insights, we have collected the wisdom of asset owners & asset managers on their experience during the COVID-19...

NordSIP Insights – SDGs 2020: 17 Shades Faster

In this new edition of NordSIP Insights, we present an update on the integration of the Sustainable Development Goals into investment strategies. Both from...

NordSIP Insights – ESG Integration Case Book 2020

In this new edition of NordSIP Insights, we have collected 9 cases, each about a different aspect of ESG integration, from ESG analysis to...

Sustainable Real Assets – Round Table Insights

Given the long-term nature of real asset investing, the idea of sustainability should be truly embedded in the process, both from a risk and...

Thematic Strategies – Round Table Insights

As far as sustainable investments are concerned, thematic investments have a special role to play as well. While negative screening and ESG integration are...

Easy Impact – Lunch Seminar Insights

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...

NordSIP Insights – Sustainable Fixed Income 2019

In this new edition of NordSIP Insights, we take a new look at the Sustainable Fixed Income Space. One year after our first ever...

NordSIP Insights – Systematically Sustainable

In this new edition of NordSIP Insights, we focus on Systematic and quantitative strategies, as well as ESG data. Together with asset managers and analytical...

Sustainability Tool Shows No Trade-Off

This article is a part of NordSIP Insights – Handbook – “Systematically Sustainable”. “Powerful, objective, scalable and trustworthy – that’s what INNORBIS stands for,”...

NordSIP Insights – Investing Along the 17 Shades of SDGs

In this new edition of NordSIP Insights, we focus on the Sustainable Development Goals and how to use the framework in the context of...

EU Taxonomy – Room for Improvement

Stockholm (NordSIP) – At a recent event organised by Schroders, NordSIP heard from Flemming Hedén, Senior Advisor at the Climate policy unit of Naturvårdsverket,...

Questioning the Status Quo

Stockholm (NordSIP) – On September 17, Nordea held its third annual Nordic Sustainable Finance Conference. This edition focused on opportunities and on providing practical...

Closing the Gender Gap in 200 Years isn’t Good Enough

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At a recent event hosted by Kvinnokapital, a network of women in the asset management industry, Diana van Maasdijk told the...

ETFs to Meet Increased Sustainability Demand

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Research shows that investor demand for sustainable investment (SI) and ESG strategies is growing fast. According to the Global Sustainable Investment...

Corporate Engagement – Lunch Seminar Insights

Over lunch in Stockholm, NordSIP held a seminar with two specialists talking about Corporate Engagement. Together with Tytti Kaasinen from Sustainalytics (previously GES International)...

Shifting Mindsets to a Sustainable Long Term

Stockholm (NordSIP) - “The long-term sustainability goals are due to be reached soon.” With these words, Anita Lindberg, Chair of Sweden’s Sustainable Investment Forum...

The Global Relevance of SASB Standards

Stockholm (NordSIP) - While many investors still find that data quality is one of the most significant hurdles remaining when integrating ESG in their...

Bottom Up ESG Integration – Round Table Insights

Only a few years ago, investors would still debate whether integrating ESG in their stock selection process made a difference. Some fundamental investors argued...

Is Finance Driving Sustainability?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On May 14, NordSIP attended “Finance driving sustainability”, a conference arranged by the Stockholm Sustainable Finance Centre (SSFC). Subjects on the...

NordSIP Insights – Sustainable Index Funds & ETFs

In this new edition of NordSIP Insights we focus on Sustainable Index Funds & ETFs. Not only do we benefit from the expertise from four...

Investing Sustainably in Emerging Markets

NordSIP hosted a round table with six professional investors who discussed the ins and outs of sustainable investing in emerging markets. In this report, you...

Impact in Focus over Lunch in Copenhagen

NordSIP (Copenhagen) – On a dark and wet Thursday in November, NordSIP invited a group of influential Danish institutional investors to listen to four...

The 3 Epochs of Sustainable Investing

Stockholm (NordSIP) – While most people and institutions realise that society needs to focus on ESG issues, many still find it difficult to know...

Can Asset Owners Achieve a 100% ESG Portfolio?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The TBLI Conference Nordic 2018 was held November 8-9 at Nasdaq’s premises in Stockholm. With over 200 attendants from around the...

NordSIP Insights – Sustainable Fixed Income

In this new edition of NordSIP insights, we focus on sustainable fixed incomes strategies. Many investors complain that ESG is not being integrated in...

A Breakfast of Sustainable Development Goals

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Amidst a growing wave of SDG washing over responsible investing seminars, RBC-Royal Bank of Canada Global Asset Management, together with its...

Can ESG be a Source of Alpha?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At Skytop Strategies’ ESG Integration Summit last week, one of the panels focused on the concept of ESG as a source...

Climate Change: Rearranging Deck Chairs?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 18 September, NordSIP had the privilege to attend Nordea's Sustainable Finance Conference in Stockholm. One keynote speaker who stood out...

Nordsip Insights – Systematically Sustainable

Welcome to our first issue of NordSIP insights. It is only the first of many, as our aim is to provide the asset management...

Investment Opportunities at DK Clean Energy Forum

Stockholm (NordSIP) – In hosting the Clean Energy Investment Forum in Copenhagen on May 22nd, the Danish Ministry for Energy, Supply and Climate is...

Is Sustainable Investing Leadership Moving South?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - We are back from the Sustainable Investment Forum Europe that took place in Paris this week. Our mission at the forum,...

A new Take on Fiduciary Duty

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In the context of the publication of the High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Sustainable Finance's final report, Magnus Billing, CEO at...

Flying Sustainably on the Alpha Carpet

Stockholm (NordSIP) - There is more than one way to invest sustainably. In the spirit of illustrating the hard work of portfolio managers that...

What’s in a Name? A Roundtable Discussion

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Moderated by NordSIP Editor-in-Chief Aline Reichenberg Gustafsson, the October 24th Northern Trust lunch seminar roundtable on Global Trends in ESG opened...

Contact us

Kungsgatan 8, 2tr
111 43 Stockholm - Sweden
[email protected]
+46 (0)70 999 3966

© NordSIP - Published by Big Green Tree Media AB