What is ESG?
ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. ESG frameworks are used to assess how companies manage sustainability-related risks and opportunities alongside traditional financial factors.
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ESG stands for environmental, social and governance, and refers to the three key factors widely used to evaluate how companies, countries and other actors contribute to sustainable development
Insights
Nordic corporates embrace sustainability-linked loans
Sustainability in finance is fast becoming the new normal, and sustainability-linked loans continue to gain momentum among Nordic corporates. This year, the trend has taken off in Denmark, according to speakers at the Cash & Treasury Management 2021 conference in Copenhagen.
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Podcast
Creating a global platform for corporate sustainability
In this podcast, Frida Emilsson, co-founder of WorldFavor, discusses the company’s evolution from an initial idea amongst friends into a leading global platform for sustainability reporting.
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ESG
“Sustainability is becoming more and more important for US companies”
US companies interest in sustainability have grown significantly during the recent years. The Nordea North American Stars fund invests in US companies that work with sustainability issues, and the portfolio manager Joakim Ahlberg has seen how the interest is increasing.
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Meet our talents
NO #3: Climbing a steep learning curve is challenging …
As their internship moves along, the 6 interns move on to new units. This week, they dived into Scope 3 and ESG in the International Shipping and Offshore unit, worked within FX Sales & Risk Solutions, digging into FX, TARF, VBA, and rotated into Advisory in Investment Banking. See how the climbing goes!
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ESG
Surge in ESG investing in the wake of the pandemic
When stock markets nosedived at the start of the pandemic, who could have known that a year later they would be at an all-time high with ESG investing as one of the winners?
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Nordea On Your Mind
Ask your shareholders which ESG yardstick to use
Remy Briand, Managing Director and Head of ESG at MSCI, explains the surging interest in ESG ratings, what sets MSCI's approach apart and what companies can gain from having a rating.
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Nordea On Your Mind
ESG ratings – welcome to the jungle
How do you determine if a company is good at sustainability? ESG ratings vary greatly among providers, who are all measuring different things with different approaches.
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Nordea On Your Mind
ESG: Reaping the rewards
ESG has rapidly gone from being seen as a niche investment philosophy to a business necessity. In the latest Nordea On Your Mind report, Nordea Thematics delves into the role of ESG ratings.
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ESG
How climate change will affect the return on your investments
The latest edition of Nordea’s “ESG Investing” series focuses on the implications of climate change for investors.
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Sustainable banking
Dialogue with companies leads to increased climate efforts
With almost a thousand engagements with companies and countries in 2020, Nordea Asset Management is driving change through active ownership.
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Insights
The rise of ESG in leveraged loans
Leveraged loan market participants are increasingly incorporating sustainability targets into their financing deals. With the trend set to grow at a rapid pace, the Loan Market Association brought together experts for a recent webinar to identify best practices for the leveraged market when it comes to engaging with ESG.
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Insights
Sustainability-linked bonds: The investor perspective
Interest in sustainability-linked bonds has surged among issuers, but how do investors feel about the innovative new format? Nordea Sustainable Finance Advisory has taken a deep dive, exploring investor reactions as well as the results of a recent investor survey on the SLB format.
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