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    Varma’s New All-Action Sustainability Programme

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – ‘Actions speak louder than words.’  The well-known saying comes to mind during NordSIP’s discussion with Varma’s Senior Vice-President, Sustainability and Communications...

    Bringing LD Pensions’ Stewardship to the Next Level

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Denmark’s €6.1 billion LD Pensions (LD Fonde in Danish) manages two legacy savings funds for Danish workers.  The Holiday Allowance Fund...

    Kåpan Sees Leadership Shift

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Kåpan Tjänstepension, Sweden’s state-sector pension fund managing approximately SEK 165 billion (approx. €15 billion), has announced that Marie Giertz is stepping down as...

    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...

    Varma Recognised as Sustainability Leader

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - At a time of retreating ESG confidence, committed sustainable investors continued to highlight their sustainability credentials despite the idiosyncracies of popular...

    AP7 Invests in IFC’s Biodiversity Bond

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Biodiversity has been one of the main sustainable themes of 2024. Bond markets has been an important avenue through which the...

    Most Transparent Pension Funds Ranked

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global has been ranked as the most transparent fund in the world. The sovereign wealth fund,...

    Danish Pensions Support New Biodiversity Standards in Construction Industry

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - AP Pension's real estate arm AP Ejendomme, together with PensionDanmark, and the Danish Planetary Responsibility Foundation have launched a collaborative initiative...

    Varma Returns to Japanese Low Emissions

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - On November 5th, Varma announced an investment of €500 million in Japanese low-emission companies via a new, exchange-traded fund (ETF) tailored...

    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...

    Doctors’ Pension Pushes for Climate Action

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Lægernes Pension is strengthening its climate-focused initiatives by actively engaging with the world’s largest banks and major CO2-emitting companies. As part...

    NZAOA Report 6% Emissions Decrease

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) announced its 88 members, representing US$9.5 trillion in assets under management (AUM), had achieved average...

    Danish Doctors’ Taiwanese Wind Project

    Lægernes Pension, the €16 billion pension scheme for Danish doctors has invested approximately €53 million in a Taiwanese wind farm.  The Changfang-Xidao project is...

    Danish Pension Funds Commit Over €150m to Environmental Restoration

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - AP Pension, Lærernes Pension, and Sampension have collectively committed over €150 million (approximately DKK 1.1 billion) to the American fund Ecosystem...

    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...

    Industriens Pension Introduces Climate-Focused Benchmark for Foreign Equities

    Industriens Pension has announced the implementation of a new benchmark, the MSCI Climate Action Indexes, for its foreign equity investments, emphasising companies with a...

    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...

    Oil Divestment Advocate Quizzes AP7

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – Sweden’s $105 billion AP7 has been fending off increasingly vocal criticism in the local media over its oil and gas related...

    AP Pension Finds New CIO Committed to Sustainability

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Danish AP Pension has been on the lookout for a new Chief Investment Officer since June this year when it became clear...

    Lærernes Pension’s Exclusions Under Scrutiny

    In 2022, Lærernes Pension, a Danish pension fund with over 150,000 members, faced criticism from Danish media and the Consumer Council (Forbrugerrådet Tænk) for...

    Industriens Pension Sets 2025 Goals for Reducing Investment Emissions

    Industriens Pension has announced specific climate goals for 2025, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across its investment portfolio. The initiative is part of...

    Lærernes Divests From Mining Companies Over Human Rights Abuses

    According to Danish investigative press Danwatch, Lærernes Pension has decided to divest its 11 million DKK investment in the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold,...

    AP7 Finds Replacement for Gröttheim

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – The rotation at the top of the Swedish National Pension Funds continues. Earlier this year, AP3’s board replaced long-time CEO Kerstin...

    AP7 Veteran to Step Down

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – The rotation at the top of the Swedish National Pension Funds continues. Just as AP3’s board has managed to find a...

    AP7’s Blacklist Grows

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – Sweden’s Seventh AP Fund (AP7), the state alternative to the private investment funds offered within the country’s premium pension system, is...

    Danish Pension Giants Join Forces in a Quest for Unlisted ESG Data

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Complaining about the availability and quality of ESG data is commonplace among institutional investors striving to integrate sustainability aspects into their portfolios...

    Kåpan Finds a Match in M&G Sustainable Loan Fund

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Dedicated sustainable options within the realm of private debt are few and far between. This week, the family got a little...

    33 Nordic Institutions Endorse Climate Appeal Ahead of UN Summit

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - 587 investors with US$46 trillion in assets under management, signed a joint statement urging national governments to rapidly implement five priority policy...

    Varma & Ilmarinen: Bullish on ESG ETFs

    Insights from Finnish asset owners suggest that global ESG ETF trends are reflective of on-the-ground experience in the Nordic country.

    How Länsförsäkringar Measures Carbon Footprint

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Swedish mutual insurance giant Länsförsäkringar (LF) has recently published a comprehensive evaluation of its carbon footprint, as well as the results...

    Länsförsäkringar Opens Kimono on Green Bond Investments

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Swedish insurance group Länsförsäkringar announced the launch of a new and highly transparent window onto its green bond investments. A dedicated...

    DK Pension Fund Divests from Saudi Arabia; Others Lag

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – MP Pension, Denmark’s pension fund for academics employed in the public sector, has published a list of additional countries it will...

    Nordic Asset Owners Sign Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – Swedish pension fund AP4, Norway financial services company Storebrand AM and Danish pension fund Lægernes Pension are three Nordic asset owners...

    Swedfund Invests in Nigerian Agriculture, Economic Recovery

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – Swedish development financier Swedfund is committing a $10 million investment to Access Bank, one of the leading banks in Nigeria, for...

    Swedish Pensions: the Year’s Greenest

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 5 December, Stockholm-based insurance and savings intermediary Max Matthiessen published its yearly report on the sustainability of Swedish pension funds....

    Tax Transparency New Central RI Theme at Sampension

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Sampension, the third largest pension company in Denmark, has decided to make the tax transparency of multinational corporations an independent theme...

    DK’s Sampension Overhauls ESG Policy

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Sampension, the manager of industry-wide pension schemes for white-collar employees of the Danish central government and Denmark’s municipalities – as well...

    PRI DDQ Converting Hedge Funds, One Step at a Time

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – The PRI association held an event today (Tuesday, June 20) in Stockholm to promote the launch of a dedicated ESG due...

    AP2 Invests USD 50m in TPG’s Rise Fund

    Stockholm (NordSIP) AP2, Sweden’s Second AP pension fund with SEK 300 billion in AUM, has invested USD 50 million in The Rise Fund, a...

    Danish Pension Funds Join UNPRI

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – JØP, the Danish professional fund which covers lawyers and economists, and DIP, which covers engineers, have both signed up to the...

    Lack of SRI investment funds worsens trade-off for responsible allocators

    Stockholm (NordSIP)- For allocators who adhere to a sustainable investment philosophy, trade-offs can be very different from those fund managers face. If everyone involved...

    Controversial weapons manufacturer re-admitted at NBIM

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), Norway's sovereign wealth fund, decided to lift the exclusion of Raytheon after 12 years, reports Investment...

    AP2 Enhances ESG Integration in Asset Management

    Stockholm (NORDSIP) - Sweden’s Second AP (Andra AP-fonden), the second national pensions buffer fund, has divested 10 more of the stocks it holds on...