ESG
Climate change investing: research and collaboration continue
One manager gives their account of actual, measurable, progress being made on the ground when it comes to climate investing.....
Evolving impact investing for better potential outcomes
Showing tangible impact is a challenge for managers and asset owners alike. Wellington have developed a framework to show how they track the progress of portfolio companies and issuers, measuring impact progress and outcomes across strategies.......
Nordea’s ESG Priorities: the SFDR is too broad and the Taxonomy is too narrow
Head of ESG, Eric Pedersen, provides us insight to how the investment giant implements it´s ESG philosophy across a broad range of portfolios and how looking for easy answers to difficult questions is unhelpful........
How behavioural finance analysis can help unearth hidden sustainability potential
Alternative approaches to help identify promising investment candidates and to assess current sustainability leaders for under-appreciated risks.....
Mapping the impact of climate change
Wellington Management shares the climate-exposure risk-analysis tool they have developed to help investment teams track and assess physical climate risks facing capital-market assets around the world...
Jentzen & Partners’ evolving ESG approach
Founding Partner, Mads Jensen, talks to us about longer term strategic asset allocation, including manager selection and developing investment policies including governance frameworks and increasingly ESG.
Are investors ripe for agriculture? – virtual roundtable summary
NordicInvestor’s agriculture roundtable gathered portfolio managers and investment consultants from North America, Denmark, Sweden and the UK to explore the unique features of agricultural investing and how it is adapting to investors’ evolving ESG and sustainability priorities.
Fondfinans’s Tailored ESG Policies; ESG and Renewables for the Short, Medium and Long Term
Melanie Brooks talks to us about leaving NBIM for boutique manager Fondfinans in order to have more hands-on involvement in picking stocks. At NBIM her ESG team supported portfolio managers but now she has both ESG and portfolio management responsibilities......
Matching Best in Class SFDR Strategies with Investors’ Sustainability Preferences – Virtual Roundtable
Louise Kooy-Henckel of Wellington Management, Anders Bertramsen of Nordea Assset Management and Erik Edward of Swedbank joined us to discuss how SFDR regulations has impacted fund selection and how the nuances and complexities of ESG investing can not be oversimplified....
ESG through a value kaleidoscope; disclosure, transition and incremental innovation
We spoke to Skagen’s Head of ESG, Sondre Myge Haugland, to identify how the firm applies and prioritises ESG considerations in the context of its value investing philosophy for equities and fixed income....