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    Danish Financial Institutions Fall Short on Human Rights

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Danish Institute for Human Rights, together with the EIRIS Foundation, published the second iteration of the human rights benchmark covering Danish...

    FI Clears Alecta in Silicon Valley Bank Investigation

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following over two years of investigation into Alecta's 2023 risk management practices and its exposure to Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic...

    Farewell to AP1 and AP6

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the 2025 comes to an end and markets begin to prepare for next year, the process of consolidation of the...

    Nordics Lead by Example in Human Rights Due Diligence

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - As sustainable investors struggle to deal with the rise in global geopolitical instability, human rights are becoming an increasingly relevant factor...

    Nordic Pension Funds Confront Human Capital Deficits

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - A new report by Denominator, a New York-based global data provider focused on human capital, analyses how 25 Nordic pension funds,...

    TNFD to conclude as ISSB Takes Over Nature

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the announcement of the International Sustainability Standards Board's (ISSB) decision to begin developing its own standard on nature-related risks and...

    Investors Call for Action on Deforestation

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – A coalition of investors managing substantial assets has issued the Belém Investor Statement on Rainforests, urging governments to implement strong policies...

    European Parliament Rejects Omnibus

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following months of speculation and controversy, the European Parliament (EP) in plenary session failed to adopt a joint position on the...

    Finnish Companies Advance Biodiversity

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - In a significant stride towards environmental responsibility, companies have shown notable progress in integrating biodiversity initiatives into their operational frameworks, according...

    Varma Continues to Push For Female Representation

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - In its latest annual equality survey of the boards of listed companies in which it invests, Finnish pension provider Varma found...

    Questions Emerge Regarding Sweden’s Exposure to Palestinian Conflict

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the recent exclusion from Norway's Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), KLP and Storebrand, Swedish asset owners have come under pressure...

    Female Board Representation at All Time High

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Despite the recent political pushback against Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DEI), there is a very good business argument to be made...

    Varma Opens the Door to Controversial Weapons Investments

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - The tumult brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, followed by Donald Trump's affinity for Putin and dithering about the...

    Minister Questions AP Funds’ Handling of Illiquid Assets

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – The ability of Sweden’s state pension buffer funds to properly manage unlisted investments is being called into question in the aftermath...

    Swedish Advisory Firm Adecla Invests in Fintech Auxality

    Stockholm-based investment advisory firm Adecla AB has taken a strategic stake in fintech company Auxality, marking a rare publicly visible investment by the otherwise...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    FI Approves Alecta’s Next Chairman

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to a press release issued by Alecta, the Swedish occupational pensions manager has received the decision from the Swedish Financial...

    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...

    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 Investors Support EM Private Debt

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - For investors seeking to make the most impact towards a better future, the growth prospects provided by private market investments in...

    Asset Owners and Managers Hope to Overcome Trump Challenges

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - While most analysts expected the US Presidential election to be tightly contested and the votes to be so tight as to...

    COP16 Update: Big Boost to Nature Disclosure

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – More than 500 organisations have committed to nature-related corporate reporting and risk management.  The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) took...

    COP16 Update: Nordic Investors Join Call to Action

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – A global coalition of investors from Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, and the United States has...

    Nordic Bond Investors Dive Into Water

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – Sweden’s Sjunde AP-Fonden (AP7) has invested SEK 2 billion (€176 million) in two Green bonds focused on the marine environment.  The...

    Nordic Investors Warn DSV of Russian Concerns

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Russia's invasion of the Ukraine at the start of 2022 has sent the world into turmoil. From rising energy prices and...

    Varma Seeds New GHG Reduction ETF

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Global asset management firm Invesco, has partnered with Finnish pension insurer Varma to launch the Invesco MSCI Global Climate 500 ETF...

    Nordic Investors Support PRI’s New Biodiversity Stewardship Initiative

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the end of June, the PRI launched Spring, a stewardship initiative for nature, convening institutional investors to use their influence...

    Investors Spring into Biodiversity Action

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) launched the engagement process for its biodiversity focused initiative Spring today, 26 June 2024.  Spring...

    Nordic Investors Reiterate Support for Climate Action 100+

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - The first quarter of 2024 was marked by a number of prominent departures by US investors from Climate Action 100+, including...

    Dansif Appoints New Chairperson

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Danish sustainable investment forum Dansif has appointed Eric Christian Pedersen as its new Chairperson.  This decision was made on 21...

    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...

    CalPERS Aims US$25 Billion at Green Private Markets

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - CalPERS, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, has been reported to be in the process of directing US$25 billion towards green...

    Nordic Investors Pressure Amazon on Unionisation Rights

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Ahead of Amazon.com’s upcoming annual general meeting (AGM) on May 22, eight Nordic shareholders have endorsed a proposal urging the company...

    PFA Jettisons Shell

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – Denmark’s largest commercial pension fund has finally run out of patience with oil giant Shell.  Having previously defended its engagement-based strategy...

    Nordics Sway Shell to Disclose Climate Lobbying

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – It is not only discouraging news coming from Shell’s headquarters these days. Last week, NordSIP picked up the story about the...

    AP2 Embeds Nature Within Sustainability

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – The gradual convergence of the two interconnected crises of climate and nature is evident in the publication by Sweden’s Andra AP-fonden...

    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...

    Alecta Executives and Board Not Personally Liable

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - 2023 was a difficult year for Alecta, Sweden's largest pension fund. A number of bad investments and a controversial hire undermined...

    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...

    Fundraising Success for H2GS

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – Swedish steel company H2 Green Steel (H2GS) powers on with its ambitious project to produce fossil-free steel, despite a new wave...

    Who Gets the Green Light by Söderberg & Partners?

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – Swedish consultancy Söderberg & Partners has been reviewing the sustainability performance of the country’s largest pension funds annually for ten years...

    Danish Pension Funds’ Fossil Fuel Dilemma

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - A recently published paper by ActionAid Denmark (Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke) has reignited the debate over Danish pension funds’ investments in fossil fuel companies....

    LF’s First Dark-Green Fund

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Swedish insurer Länsförsäkringar (LF) has just revealed the name of its first fund to be incorporated under Article 9 of the...

    Varma’s Emission Targets Validated by SBTi

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – Nordic institutional investors continue to lead the way in aligning their emission reduction goals with the Paris Agreement objectives through the...

    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...

    Navigating Palm Oil Controversies

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Last year's COP15 prominently put biodiversity and natural capital  at the centre of global sustainable investment agenda. Among the many issues...

    Private Debt Tackles Global Poverty

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – The advantages of private markets for impact investors are highlighted in a new report from Amsterdam-based investment consultancy the Phenix Capital...

    Impact With Private Debt in Emerging Markets

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – Managers with the right set of skills have long been providing private equity opportunities that offer measurable environmental, social and governance...

    What Role for ESG Amid the Downfall of SVB?

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - When an epidemic started in China and Russia invaded the Ukraine, investors were far from thinking that these events would ultimately...

    Green Light for Folksam and Futur

    Stockholm (NordSIP) – On 24 January, Söderberg & Partners published their eagerly awaited annual report, Sustainable Unit-Linked Insurance 2023 (in Swedish). The analysis has become...

    Nordic Pension Providers Top Pension Transparency Benchmark

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - One of the main tenets of sustainable investing is that transparency and accountability lead to better investment outcomes. In this spirit,...

    Meet the Board of Denmark’s New Export and Investment Fund

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the end of January 2022, the Danish government merged Denmark’s Export Credit Agency (EKF), the Danish Growth Fund (Vaekstfonden) and...

    Länsforsäkringar Announces Climate Fund Award

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the announcement of the finalists of Länsforsäkringar's “Responsible fund performance of the year” award at the end of February, the...

    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...

    LF Adds Timber to Platform

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Opportunities to invest in timber as an asset class are few and far between for retail clients. This is a pity...

    Green Assets Wallet Appoints Executive Board

    Stockholm (NordSIP) -  Following the recent appointment of Nicklas Lemon to the role of Cheif Experience Officer (CXO), the Green Asset Wallet announced the addition of...

    Länsförsäkringar Announces 2022 Responsible Fund Finalists

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - For the third year in a row, Länsforsäkringar will award the best responsible funds on its platform for their climate-related activities....

    Green Light for LF’s Unit-Linked Platform

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Söderberg & Partners annual report Sustainable Unit-Linked Insurance has become a regular feature. The rating included in the paper constitutes a...

    Länsförsäkringar Launch New Sustainable Real Estate Company

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Brunswick Real Estate, in partnership with Länsförsäkringar Liv Försäkringsaktiebolag and Länsförsäkringar Fondliv Försäkringsaktiebolag, launched Bohild Fastigheter AB. Länsförsäkringar Liv and Länsförsäkringar...

    Länsförsäkringar Tightens Exclusions Criteria

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Länsförsäkringar, one of Sweden's largest insurance groups, announced the decision to tighten the exclusions criteria for oil and gas companies held by...