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Adam Kybird is the fund manager of the Triodos Food Transition Europe Fund. | Foto: PR/Triodos

Impact pioneer eyes investor appetite for a food revolution

As interest from institutional investors grows, Dutch impact investor Triodos Investment Management is aiming to make several new additions to its Food Transition Europe Fund.
  • Dutch private equity fund ramps up Nordic efforts
  • Triodos' new Nordic manager moved away from investment banking for ethical reasons: “I love discussing how impact investing can help”

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70 companies are part of the Science Based Targets climate initiative. | Foto: Jens Dresling

Two Danish pension funds first in the world to receive approval from climate initiative

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Foto: Agustin Marcarian/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

AP2 teams up with think tank to identify deforestation exposure in global portfolios

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Charlotte Mansson (left) and Elisabeth Sterner are BlackRock's head of sustainable & transition solutions, Nordics and Netherlands, and head of Nordics, respectively. | Foto: BlackRock PR / Jeppe Carlsen / Håkan Målbäck

BlackRock: High number of US investors plan to increase allocation to green transition

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The outside tower is painted in a steel gray color, but the inside is untreated, with the Finnish spruce wood grain on full display. | Foto: PR / Modvion

Startup bets wood can make wind turbines even greener

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CIO of AkademikerPension Anders Schelde, | Foto: Pr/mp Pension

Pension funds abandon dialogues with oil majors and divest shares

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  • Flemming Højbo writes analyses for AMWatch about the Nordic asset and wealth management sector. Højbo was head of communications in the asset management industry for 15 years, and before that, he worked for 25 years as financial and business reporter and editor. | Photo: Jan Bjarke Mindegaard

    Analysis: Will Nordic investors take the lead in the battle of biodiversity?

    Investors have increased their focus on biodiversity, though it is a complex area. Could some of the major Nordic investors become frontrunners of such complex problem-solving? 

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  • From left: The portfolio managers Joakim By, Christoffer Halldin and Simon Park who were all poached from Handelsbanken Fonder last year to take charge of Coeli's sustainable "Circulus" strategy. | Photo: PR/Coeli

    Swedish asset manager kicks off new fund with leading Nordic institution

    Demand from institutional investors has prompted Coeli to launch a new Article 9 fund focused on US-small cap companies. 

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  • Hanna Kaskela, senior vice president, sustainability & communications at Varma.

    More than one third of managers do not report ESG violations to Varma, despite shared values

    In a fresh survey by Varma, only 62% of fund managers employed by the pensions giant say they would inform the company about violations of ESG principles. 

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  • Photo: Nbim

    World’s no. 1 stock owner calls out Big Oil as carbon levels go up

    The manager of Norway’s gigantic oil fund regularly meets with the biggest emitters in its portfolio, says its chief governance and compliance officer Carine Smith Ihenacho. 

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  • Olivier Van Eyseren, head of BlackRock’s financial institutions group in EMEA, and Jon Valdelin, head of Nordic institutional client business at BlackRock. | Photo: PR BlackRock.

    Nordics show clear appetite for new asset classes, BlackRock survey reveals

    Nearly 70% of Nordic respondents in BlackRock’s survey are looking to invest in clean energy infrastructure, says Jon Valdelin, head of institutional client business for Nordic Region at BlackRock.

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  • Emine Isciel, head of climate and environment at Storebrand Asset Management. | Photo: PR / Storebrand

    28 Nordic investors in new alliance to engage companies on nature risk

    The investors have sent out letters to the 100 companies outlining their expectations of how the companies will mitigate nature-related risks. Four Nordic companies feature on the list. 

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  • Photo: Michael Sohn/AP/Ritzau Scanpix

    Net zero by 2050 still remains possible with rapid renewables expansion, says IEA

    Net zero by 2050 is possible but requires tripling renewable energy capacity by the end of the decade and increasing green investments to USD 4.5trn a year globally by the early 2030s.

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  • All sectors need to have climate strategies, Caroline Le Meaux of Amundi says. | Foto: Amundi / PR

    Companies are more responsive when voted against, Amundi's engagement head says

    Amundi is stepping up its climate engagement significantly. This takes time and effort, but it is the most efficient way to have an impact, Amundi’s leading ESG and engagement figure tells AMWatch.

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  • Christian Kettel Thomsen, governor of the Danish central bank, | Foto: Jens Dresling/Ritzau Scanpix

    Denmark's new green bond faces lower 'greenium'

    The pricing advantage Denmark gets for selling green bonds is set to fall sharply this year, reflecting reduced appetite among foreign and domestic investors for ethical debt.

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  • Biodiversity is a major focus area for many pension funds. Flower fields, like the one shown here near Danish town Haslev in Denmark can create more biodiversity, wild nature and allow bees, insects and butterflies to feed. | Foto: Finn Frandsen/Ritzau Scanpix

    AkademikerPension increases focus on biodiversity

    With new initiatives, AkademikerPension wants to engage in a biodiversity dialog with large Danish companies.

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  • Tim Love has been managing GAM Investment's Emerging Market equity strategy since 2012. | Foto: PR/GAM

    EM manager bets on polluting giant for his sustainable fund: "It sticks out like a sore thumb"

    The Nordic responsible investors should think twice before underweighting emerging market stocks, Tim Love, investment director at Swiss asset manager GAM says in an interview with AMWatch.

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  • EU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness has launched a consultation into SFDR. | Foto: Yves Herman/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

    Asset managers rebuffed as EU cracks down on use of ‘ESG’

    Asset management giants criticize EU plans to restrict the use of ”ESG” and ”sustainability” in fund names, but the proposal will not be abandoned, EU watchdog says.

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  • The world will move away from fossil fuels. Therefore, Nykredit needs to take responsibility in this movement, according to Jens Theil, head of sustainability at Denmark’s largest mortgage banking group. | Foto: Magnus Holm

    Nykredit to divest more than 60 fossil fuel companies

    As part of its climate plan, Nykredit will additionally block new loans to oil, gas and coal companies.

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  • Helsinki-headquartered Mehiläinen has more than 800 locations with operations in countries including Finland, Estonia, Sweden and Germany. | Foto: Pexels: Chris Economou.

    Major PE investor considers divesting Finnish healthcare giant

    Deliberations are at an early stage, and there’s no certainty they will result in a deal, sources familiar with the matter say, according to Bloomberg.

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  • Kaja Kallas, prime minister of Estonia (l.), Mette Fredriksen, prime minister of Denmark and Petr Fiala, prime minister of the Czech Republic at the signing ceremony of the NATO Innovation Fund Letter of Commitment during the NATO summit in Madrid, June 2022. | Foto: PR / NATO.

    NATO's fund is in discussions with several Finnish investment funds, founder says

    NATO Innovation Fund will invest in start-ups located in 23 participating allied nations, as well as indirect investments into deep tech funds with a trans-Atlantic impact.

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  • Carine Smith Ihenacho is the chief governance and compliance officer at Norges Bank Investment Management. | Foto: PR/NBIM

    Oil fund tightens climate demands and adopts policy on carbon credits

    Norway’s oil fund will demand more climate action from the companies it invests in, as it tells boards to move from target-setting to transition planning. 

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  • At the end of H1, Kyrkans Pension managed assets totaling approximately SEK 24.3bn (EUR 2.06bn). | Foto: (Photo by: Kerstin Stickler / Svenska kyrkan)

    Sweden's church pension fund finds new head of sustainable investing

    The role had been vacant since late last year, when former head of sustainable investing left the fund to join Nordea Wealth Management.

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  • AP3 is focusing on the 55 big emitters that have 70% of the carbon footprint in the fund's investment portfolio, Staffan Hansén says. | Foto: AP3 / PR

    Major Swedish pension fund focuses on engagement with most polluting portfolio companies

    The AP3 buffer fund insists that companies with big carbon footprints have ”valid and trustworthy” plans to reach net-zero emissions, its CEO tells AMWatch. 

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  • Flemming Højbo writes analyses for AMWatch about the Nordic asset and wealth management sector. Højbo was head of communications in the asset management industry for 15 years, and before that, he worked for 25 years as financial and business reporter and editor. | Foto: Jan Bjarke Mindegaard

    Analysis: Will investors regain confidence in China? 

    Gone are the days of the Chinese investment adventure. China investments are currently excluded from a growing number of funds. Now, the question is whether confidence in China can be rebuilt. 

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  • Fonden har indtil videre nået ca. 60 pct. af sin målsætning på 5,5 mia. kr. | Foto: Jens Dresling

    New investment firm backed by large investors announces first close of energy transition fund

    Glentra Capital has secured commitments from Novo Holdings and PKA, among others, for its first fund to invest in companies within the green transition. 

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