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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...

    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...

    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...

    FTN to Chisel Away at US Equities

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - On September 24, the Swedish Fund Selection Agency (Fondtorgsnämnden, FTN) announced the launch of a procurement for US equity funds and...

    AP7 Reviews Conflicts Exposure

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following questions about AP7's exposure to companies contributing to human rights violations in the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    AP7 Partners to Launch New Transition Strategy

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - As investors seek to aid companies in their sustainability journey, focus on the energy transition is foremost on everyone's mind. To...

    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,...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    Länsförsäkringar’s New Green Choices

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Bond investors, especially those focusing on sovereign debt, have been slow to catch up with their equity peers when integrating ESG into...

    Green Energy a Soaring Investment at CIP

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is having a bumper year. The fund management company, which was founded in 2012, currently has DKK...

    DK Pension Manager Invests in Biogas

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Sampension, manager of pension schemes for employees of the Danish government and its municipalities, has become a central investor in Nature...

    Further Tobacco Divestment from DK Pension Funds

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Danish pension companies PenSam and Lærernes Pension are to divest their tobacco shares, it emerged over the Christmas break PenSam has already...

    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...

    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...

    DK Pension Funds Launch Africa Infrastructure Fund

    Stockholm (NordSIP) - Three of the largest pension funds in Denmark this week announced the launch of the “Africa Infrastructure Fund I”, to be...

    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...

    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...