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    AP7 Invests in Rule of Law

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - The latest investment announcements from Sweden's public pension fund AP7 suggests the asset owner has decided to use sustainable assets to...

    AP7 Joins NIB’s Inaugural Sustainability-Linked Loans Financing Bond

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - On September 24, Swedish pension fund AP7 participated in a new issuance by the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) designed to promote...

    AP7 Invests in Sweden’s First Municipal Social Bond

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Social bonds, securities that aim to fund projects addressing social issues or achieving positive social outcomes, remain a relatively small part...

    A Slow But Steady Start to 2025

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the world continues to wobble amid geopolitical crises, trade wars and rising temperatures, fixed-income markets remain one of the main...

    Kåpan and Skandia Support Sustainable Farming

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - In 2023, about 735 million people suffered from hunger, while nearly 700 million people continued to live in extreme poverty surviving...

    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...

    Swedish Sustainable Bond Issuance Rebounds in Q2

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - As fixed-income markets closed the first half of the year, sustainable bond issuance seemed to remain on track with that of...

    Länsförsäkringar Invests in CEB’s First SEK Social Inclusion Bond

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 27 April, the Council of Europe Deveopment Bank (CEB) issued a SEK650 million five-year Social Inclusion Bond (SIB), the largest...

    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...

    Greener Ferries Set Sail With Help From M&G

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – UK based M&G Investments have agreed to lend NOK 1 billion to Fjord1, the largest and most environmentally-friendly ferry operating company...

    Länsförsäkringar Prolongs Sustainable Bond Market Bonanza

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to the latest UN climate report, the transformation necessary to achieve the Paris Agreement's climate goals needs to accelerate. At...

    Swedish Asset Owners Embrace Social Bonds

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and responsAbility, a Zurich-based impact asset manager, announced they were partnering with Danske Bank to...

    Will 2021 Sustainable Bond Flows Reach US$1 Trillion?

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Despite challenging market conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was another record year in sustainable bond issuance, which reached US$547.6...

    Nordics Welcome EIB‘s First Taxonomy-Aligned SEK CAB

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - As European green investors finalise their preparations to incorporate the new definitions imposed by the EU taxonomy into their investment process,...

    Investors Rush to Sweden’s Inaugural Sovereign Green Bond

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Wednesday, September 2nd, Sweden issued its first sovereign green bond. The event concluded a process that began last year and...

    Skandia and Länsförsäkringar Anchor AfDB’s COVID19 Bond

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - On April 3rd, the African Development Bank (AfDB) issued SEK2.5 billion in 3-year Social Bonds aimed at contributing to the global...

    Swedish Investors Rush to EIB COVID-19 Bond

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Wednesday, April 1st, the EIB issued a new SEK3 billion three-year Sustainable Awareness Bond (SAB) to fund the fight against...

    Swedish Investors Back COVID19 Bond

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to reports from Alecta, Folksam and Länsförsäkringar the IFC issued a SEK3 billion social bond to provide financial support and...

    Länsförsäkringar Triples Green Bond Holdings

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Länsförsäkringar announced that its investments in green and sustainable bonds tripled in 2019, from SEK3.2 billion at the start of 2019...

    New Sustainable Bond Network For More Transparency

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Nasdaq announced the launch of the Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Network, a global, publicly available web-based platform designed to improve transparency in the...

    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...

    KfW Issues Largest SEK Green Bond

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), the German development bank, issued a three-year SEK 7 billion green bond at the end of May....

    SCBC to hit the Road with Green Covered Bond

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – This week, SBAB's covered bond subsidiary SCBC mandated Danske Bank, SEB and Swedbank to arrange investor meetings from Monday, January 21...

    Private Debt – Scaling Up Impact Investments

    by Richard Sherry, M&G Investments Investment is required on a huge scale to address the world’s biggest challenges, such as climate change, poverty and inequality....

    One More Government Opts for Green Bonds

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – On October 10, Ireland announced the issue of a €3 billion green bond. European investors showed a very strong interest, and...

    First Green Commercial Paper Launched on Nasdaq Stockholm

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – Vasakronan AB, Sweden’s largest property company, has issued the world’s first green commercial paper, marking the first time short-term financing instruments...

    Mistra Seeds M&G new Private Debt Launch

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - M & G Investments launched a new fund this week, which primarily invests in private and illiquid debt which are targeted...

    New Green Bond Program at Kommuninvest

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Monday, Kommuninvest issued its fourth green bond, and the second one in Swedish kronor. This time, the issue amounted to...

    Biggest Not Good Enough for SPP’s Lindahl

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – Helena Lindahl is Senior Portfolio Manager, in charge of managing the Swedish asset manager SPP's green bond fund, the biggest such...

    Humlegården Green Bond Listed on Stockholm Nasdaq

    Stockholm (NordSIP) Humlegården Fastigheter AB CEO Anneli Jansson rang in the bell at the Stockholm Nasdaq this morning (August 23) to mark the listing...