Infrastructure manager that also works with several Nordic pension funds on other mandates announces first delivery of green biogas in Danish region.
A new player within agriculture is investing in connecting biogas to other technologies.
The Danish pension fund has set aside DKK 5bn (EUR 670m) for ESG investments, and will focus on co-ownerships, says the CIO.
Velliv has been lagging behind its competitors on the green transition, but is now setting aside DKK 5bn (EUR 670m) for investments in green Danish firms.
Stuart Kirk, who is responsible for integrating ESG risks across asset classes at HSBC asset management, told conference participants the financial industry should ”get back to making money out of the transition.” He has since been suspended.
Allianz Investment Management and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners will look into options for setting up an artificial energy island in the German part of the North Sea.
AIP Management, which is owned by one Norwegian and four Danish pension companies, has made an investment in a company that owns 115 electric trains.
Professional investors overwhelmingly prefer to use actively managed funds to deal with environmental, social and governance risks, according to a report from Capital Group that suggests the recent surge in passive ESG strategies may be at odds with industry needs.
The head of sustainability at EQT will be joining UBS to lead its European ESG advisory team.
The soon-to-be former Head of Sustainable investing at PFA, Sasja Beslik, recently said he was “sick of greenwashing”. Talking to AMWatch, he berates the global ESG industry, calling most funds an empty construct.
The Head of Active Equity and Fixed Income Management is one of three top-level employees that Sweden’s second largest fund manager has lost to Coeli in a short space of time. He brought the two others onboard to launch a new fund at Coeli after the summer.
The Danish defense industry has encouraged pension funds in the country to look more positively at investments in weapons. ”We would like it to be considered ordinary societal responsibility,” says an industry leader.
The Swedish insurer has changed to Paris-aligned indices which the firm believes will cut the CO2 emissions of the portfolio in half.
The Danish FSA, Finanstilsynet, states that asset managers are using the EU’s sustainable finance disclosure regulation to signify quality, which is not the point of the legislation. In fact, the FSA states it is the opposite of what the EU intended.
A senior sustainability analyst and engagement lead is taking on a management role, despite having only joined Handelsbanken from Skandia in February.
Lærernes Pension is facing criticism for going too far in its policy on responsible investments, and for the list of excluded companies, 658 in total, to be too long.
The asset manager has poached profiles from BlackRock and Nykredit to accelerate growth across several business segments. Head of Nordics and Benelux Christoffer Hedberg believes his new team is set up for something big.
The Swedish sustainability profile spills the beans on why he is leaving Danish pension company PFA after six months. He tells AMWatch why the opportunity from Japan was too good to turn down and why he’s sick of industry greenwashing.
Euronext, which runs the Oslo stock exchange, has launched its own ESG index for companies listed in Norway.
Europe’s desire to break away from Russian gas, oil and coal will increase the demand for renewable energy, which will support our private asset management business in the long term, says CEO of Finland’s Taaleri Peter Ramsay.
OP Asset Management has weathered a difficult Q1 with inflow from retail and outflow from institutional clients.
Norway’s largest asset manager is content with a muted AUM drop in Q1, helped by strong inflows in its Swedish operations as well as growing appetite for its value strategies and real assets, CEO Jan Erik Saugestad tells AMWatch.
Relying on a specific sector such as tech to build an ESG portfolio has exposed investors to unnecessary losses.
In 2020, Denmark’s biggest pension company ATP developed a comprehensive ESG survey for unlisted investments. Now, Industriens Pension and PenSam are also implementing the questionnaire.
Danish pension provider P+, which caters to academics, has cleaned up its portfolio and parted from companies including BP and Equinor.
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