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IÄF Receives CFA Sweden ESG Award 2024

Stockholm (NordSIP) - CFA Society Sweden has awarded the 2024 ESG Award to Institutionella Ägares Förening (the Institutional Owners Association, IÄF) for its impactful...

Swedfund and Norfund Invest in African SMEs

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Swedfund announced it invested US$15 million in the TLG Africa Growth Impact Fund II (TLG AGIF II), a private credit fund....

NGFS Publishes First Short-Term Climate Scenarios

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) published today its first vintage of short-term climate scenarios. This new, publicly and...

Greenwashed? Lawyer Up!

It is no big secret that the Laundromat is no big fan of Coca Cola.  The world’s third largest food and drink company is...

IKEA Promotes New Chief Sustainability Officer from Within

Stockholm (NordSIP) – According to a press release from the Inter IKEA Group, Lena Julle has been appointed as the new incoming Chief Sustainability...

SSGA Offers Clients Opt-in Stewardship Service

Stockholm (NordSIP) – State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has signalled a move towards a more tailored approach to ESG investing with the launch of...

Call for Your Views on ESG Rating Standards

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has opened a public consultation on how best to regulate the market for Environmental,...

Investment Cases – The Investability of Future Generations

In the current impact investing landscape, when seeking competitive financial returns, most investments are directed toward environmental initiatives. As a result, social impact investments...

Child-Lens Investing – A New Paradigm for Sustainable Investment

Child-Lens Investing is a groundbreaking framework that aligns the power of global finance with the well-being of the world’s 2.2 billion children, UNICEF’s Child-Lens...

Has Sustainable Investing Become a Job for Suits?

Having just returned to Stockholm after attending the Sustainable Investment Forum Europe 2025 in Paris, I cannot help but wonder: has sustainable investing become...

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...

Battle to Shift EU Climate Goals

Stockholm (NordSIP) – According to reports from a recent meeting of EU environment ministers in Warsaw, Finland and Denmark are among the member states...

Mysterious Climate Issue Causes Iberian Blackout

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In the morning of April 28th, at 12:33pm CET Spain, Portugal and parts of Southern France suffered massive electric power outages....

Impact Over Reporting

“I was surprised by how much people focus on reporting. I think that impact is more important. It's true that you need to be...

Has ESG Backlash Crossed the Pond?

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Signs of a market in crisis are evident in the latest quarterly Global Sustainable Fund Flows report from Morningstar, which analyses...

Politics Cannot Defeat Economics

“For the new inconvenient truth is that politics cannot defeat economics. And the economics of clean power and a sustainable future speak louder than...

Pathways to Investing in Biodiversity

For investors seeking to deploy capital to strategies that may benefit nature while generating positive financial returns, there are a multitude of opportunities to...

EQuilibrium – 2025 Global Institutional Investor Survey – Nordic Edition

Higher conviction meets calculated risk: How institutions are navigating opportunity and uncertainty in 2025 Nuveen’s fifth annual global survey of 800 institutional investors, 40 of...

Timberland’s Expanding Investable Universe

Timberland earns a position in many institutional investors’ portfolios because of its portfolio-level benefits – a lack of correlation with capital markets, ability to...

A Natural Fit

For several decades, natural capital as an asset class has become an increasingly important part of institutional portfolios. This has traditionally included investments in...

Industriens Pension’s Active Ownership Agenda: Climate Change & Workers’ Rights

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In 2024, Industriens Pension continued to focus strongly on active ownership as a tool for promoting responsible business practices in the...

Happy (Forgotten) Earth Day?

As we celebrate World Earth Day 2025 amid difficult global conditions, it is worth taking stock of where we are, how the planet is...

A Practical View on ESG Integration in Equity Portfolios: 20 Years of Lessons

The challenges and dilemmas faced by investors as they integrate non-financial factors into their decision making were explored by a round table of experts...

Nordic Investors Turn Up Heat on Equinor

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The contradictions between long-term corporate climate targets and companies’ day-to-day activities have been brought to light with Norway’s state-owned energy firm...

New York Reiterates its Commitment to Climate Change

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On April 21st, the office of Thomas P. DiNapoli, the New York State Comptroller, announced that the New York State Common...

BP Caught in Pincer Movement in Climate Battle

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Almost a quarter of BP shareholders have voted against the company chair in the biggest such rebellion in two decades. The...

Net-Zero Banking Alliance Waters Down Guidance

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) has come under fire on the topic of climate change since the re-election of Donald Trump...

Shipping Charts Course to Decarbonisation

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Global shipping is the first specific industry sector to be covered by a legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)...

LEGO Drops Diversity & Inclusion Language

Stockholm (NordSIP) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s series of executive orders (EOs) targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programmes in the public and private...

Kommuninvest Issues Milestone Social Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The social bonds market appears to have gained some traction at the end of the first quarter of 2025. Concomitantly with...

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...

Danske Bank Finds New Chief ESG Specialist

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Maria Nordqvist has been appointed Chief ESG Specialist at Danske Bank Asset Management (AM). She will be a part of the...

Renewable Energy and ABS Financing – How Private Equity and Structured Credit Can Support the Energy Transition in Europe

Investors seeking to ‘green’ their portfolios can draw on a rapidly growing range of listed and unlisted impact equity funds.  However, steering investments towards...

Financial Institutions Make Progress Despite Cakeism Accusations

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to South Pole's 2024/25 Net Zero report, many FIs are taking selective steps towards decarbonisation. Despite some perceived progress towards...

Changing of the Guard at the Top of BlueOrchard

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Board of BlueOrchard has made some changes to its leadership team. At the executive level, it appointed Michael Wehrle (Pictured,...

EFRAG Looking for Input on ESRS Omnibus Revision

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the European Commission's (EC) decision at the end of 2024 to adopt Omnibus proposals simplifying existing sustainability regulations, the EU...

ESMA Opens Second Consultation on EuGB External Reviewers

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has published a Consultation Paper on the...

Folksam Funds EIB’s SEK Gender Equality Bond

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The beginning of April saw the European Investment Bank (EIB) break new ground on a number of sustainable bond issuance fronts,...

Video: Ecozen – a Private Equity Investment Case

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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...

Robeco Partners to Launch Avoided Emissions Platform

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As sustainability specialists seek to fund and facilitate the energy transition, one of the hurdles they face is the ability to...

The Coolest Get-Rich-Quick Opportunity

Check your investment portfolios. Have you got nice fat chunks of Hitachi, LG, Daikin, Samsung, and Voltas shares? Disclaimer: NordSIP does not recommend stocks....

DWS Fined for Greenwashing in Germany

Stockholm (NordSIP) – German asset management firm DWS has been hit with a €25 million fine in its home market after Frankfurt prosecutors found...

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....

Impact Commitments Grow Despite Shrinking Targets

Stockholm (NordSIP) -  As sustainable investing continues to face political backlash, it is crucial that the most committed impact investor not be deterred from...

Fighting Populism With Care, Kindness, Trust (and Accountability)

We're only just over the first quarter of 2025 and it is already clear this is going to be a disturbing year. The shifting...

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...

Nordea Reiterates Sustainability Commitment

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In an effort to combat greenwashing, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced and published guidelines establishing harmonised criteria for...

Investment in Renewables Paying Off

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Climate change is driving up global energy demand, but much of that growth is being met by renewable energy according to...

Cracks Appear in Asset Owner and Manager Relations

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Signs of a widening gap on sustainability matters between asset owners and managers are evident in new analysis published today, 26...

The Major Risk Ignored by European Banks

Stockholm (NordSIP) – European banks should urgently address the risks inherent in the plastics industry value chain, according to new analysis by financial non-profit...

Change the Name Not the Game

Have you ever met anyone who claims they were there when the term ESG was coined? The official story is that it first appeared...

“We are Increasing the Risks to Our Lives”, WMO Warns

Stockholm (NordSIP) - This week, the UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), published its annual State of the Global Climate report. The study confirmed that 2024...

Fixed Income in a Climate Transition Perspective

Where does fixed income sit in the climate transition investing toolbox?  Can sustainability truly be integrated within fixed-income strategies, are the appropriate data sources...

Strategising for a Sustainable Future: Navigating Investment Frameworks for Climate Goals

Beyond the shift from ambitious climate targets to implementation via metrics and ESG frameworks, sustainable asset managers increasingly need to find targeted strategies that...

BlackRock’s Major ESG Fund Spring Clean

Stockholm (NordSIP) – New fund naming guidelines from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) come into full effect on 21 May 2025, which...

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...

Danish Academics Punish US Firms Over ESG

Stockholm (NordSIP) – AkademikerPension, the €21 billion pension scheme for Danish academics announced today 19 March 2025 that it is terminating a longstanding mandate...

Council on Ethics’ New Proactive Approach

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Council on Ethics for the Swedish National Pension Funds (Etikrådet) believes the strengthening of its team has resulted in more...

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...

Fund Industry Shifting Defence Stance

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The 2025 Global Risk Report positioned state-based armed conflict as the top current risk and the third most pressing over the...

The Road to COP30

The road to Belém. That is the headline on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) page dedicated to the upcoming 30th Conference...

Taxonomy-Aligned CapEx Grows Amid Heterogeneous Transition

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance has published a report on Monitoring Capital Flows to Sustainable Investments. The Platform on Sustainable...

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