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Morningstar's subsidiary Sustainalytics produces an ESG score that can be compared across industries and sectors.
Transparency International's Swedish chapter is launching a new platform for investors to work together on fighting corruption risks and increasing corporate governance and transparency.
Is it possible to make a 180-year-old Swiss private bank significantly more sustainable in less than two years? Sasja Beslik believes so, having left J. Safra Sarasin to take the over the reins at Denmark's largest commercial pension fund, PFA. Even though only 1.5 percent of PFA's clients have opted for its climate product after more than a year on the market, it shouldn't become the mandatory savings product, he argues.
Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners have struck an agreement to swap jointly owned assets, so that they each own 100 percent.
European regulators are debating whether government bonds should feature in the final disclosure requirement. The CFA Institute advocates for including all investments to prevent "cherry-picking", while the chair of EU parliament's environmental committee says now is not the time to try and apply the sustainable-activities list to the bonds.
ETFs tracking climate change indices invest very little in green companies but increase allocation to those with poor environmental records, academic research finds.
The rapid pace of growth in green investing raises the prospect of a bubble that could burst further down the road, according to the Bank for International Settlements.
There are still many questions to be posed about the standardization of sustainability reporting, particularly from an investor perspective, says Martin Skancke, chair of the Principles for Responsible Investment association (PRI).
CapMan creates a new role based in Stockholm and poaches head of the ESG Specialist team from consultancy ISS ESG.
Sweden's largest fund manager is launching a climate impact fund with Swedbank's insurance unit as anchor investor. "We've had some great interest from larger investors and are in close contact with several potential investors that have expressed an interest," the new fund's portfolio manager tells AMWatch.
The Danish Lundbeck Foundation acquires 25 percent of asset manager Cresco Capital Services, which has climate among its focal areas and invests in energy projects.
Indigenous people and environmental NGOs accuse Golden Agri of polluting water supplies, building on sacred land and unacceptable levels of deforestation.
Private equity investors are busy capitalizing on the huge competition for sustainable assets.
Solvency and liquidity should be considered by some of the pension companies when evaluating whether to increase exposure to alternative investment even further, Denmark's Central Bank warns.
A few months into her new role at Northern Trust Asset Management, Julie Moret considers the four themes dominating the ESG investing space -- and how these translate into changing client demands.
East Capital’s new client relationship manager comes to the firm from recently shuttered quant manager IPM.
Investors ploughed USD 97.4bn into ESG ETFs in the first seven months of 2021.
Pension fund PenSam is raising the bar in the race to be green taking place in the pension industry. By 2025, the company wants to reduce CO2 emissions generated by its investment portfolios by a total of 44 percent.
The recruitment of Tomas Franzén, the former chief investment strategist at Andra AP-fonden (AP2) in Sweden, is part of Quintet Private Bank's increasing focus on the Nordics.
"Instead of speculating about how the market could look tomorrow, we prepare our portfolio every day for a strong drop in the markets and this is visible in our asset allocation," says Anders Ekholm, Chief Investment Officer at the University of Helsinki.
Years of sparring with Golding Capital Partners and a Christmas of soul searching led Andreas Nilsson to drop his niche boutique in favor of a "more impactful" large player. "More and more established players were coming into the market, so we had to decide if we wanted to be a small player or join a larger player and take impact investments to the next level," he says
Former Senior Analyst for Responsible Investments at KLP Kapitalforvaltning has caught Odin's eye after a tough hunt for someone to lead the company's growing ESG operations.
The bank's debut within the product class comes after criticism that its asset management arm has overstated the sustainability characteristics of its ESG assets.
A sub fund will have a climate focused objective and a new name as of October 11, the bank announces.
Media reports that Sasja Beslik has stepped down from the role created especially for him after just two years on the job. However, both the bank and Beslik himself remain tight-lipped about the departure.
