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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Sustainability is about balancing the environmental, societal and governance factors of development to ensure that we meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
Insights
Nordea elected to Executive Committee for Green and Social Bond Principles
Nordea joins a select group of 24 underwriters, issuers and investors on the Executive Committee, the governing body that decides on any changes to the Green Bond Principles and Social Bond Principles.
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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
Transition finance: Funding the shift to a green economy
Transition finance is one of the most hotly debated topics within sustainable finance. Nordea's Sustainable Finance Advisory team shares its view on the current state of transition finance and where it's headed.
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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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Values
Nordea proudly partners with Pride
Every day, we engage with society and try to make a difference. We are therefore proud to announce that we will be partnering with Pride again this year.
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Sustainability
ESG expert lists challenges and opportunities of ESG analysis
Since the end of 2020, Veronica Palmgren heads the ESG analysis team in Group Sustainability at Nordea. Here she explains how our work with ESG develops.
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About us
Nordea teams up with other investors to push companies on human rights issues
Together with 207 other global investors, Nordea is putting pressure on companies to act responsibly on human rights.
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Insights
Science-based targets – The new ‘must have’ in sustainable finance?
As momentum in the sustainable finance space picks up, more and more companies are committing to increasingly ambitious sustainability targets. Greenhouse-gas-related targets in particular are in vogue and, with that, a focus on aligning them with the Paris Agreement and the Science-Based Targets (SBT) initiative. In this article, we look at the corporate take-up of SBTs and ask, what is next?
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Paving the way for social loans
The Swedish local government funding agency, Kommuninvest, recently launched a social sustainability loan offering for its members. This innovative new product, developed in collaboration with members to promote social sustainability throughout Sweden, finances investments with solid potential to address local challenges. Nordea’s Sustainable Finance Advisory team spoke to Björn Bergstrand, Head of Sustainability at Kommuninvest, to find out more about the agency’s social loan journey. 03 May,
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