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  • Ground-breaking PRI sovereign investor engagement initiative expands

    24 May 2023

    More investors have been asked to join a ground-breaking collaborative fixed income investor engagement initiative for sovereign issuers coordinated by the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

  • Nordea launches €20m social bond fund

    21 December 2022

    Nordea Asset Management (Nordea AM) has launched a €20 million ($21 million) social bond fund, amid growing interest in the social bond market from fund managers.

  • Trill Impact fund raises €900m from Nordea, AP funds

    03 September 2021

    Nordea Asset Management (NAM) and Sweden's AP pension funds are among investors to have contributed to a €900 million

  • Brunel moves beyond ESG risk mitigation with £1.2bn equities fund

    28 October 2020

    Brunel Pension Partnership has launched a £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) listed global equities fund that moves beyond mitigating environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks, and is focused on investing in companies that make a positive contribution to society.

  • Asset managers pressurise Brazil to ban Amazon fires

    14 July 2020

    Work by asset managers sets 120-day ban following 34% increase in Amazonian deforestation this year

  • Investor support for Mizuho Financial climate resolution grows

    23 June 2020

    Mizuho Financial faces growing pressure as more investors back a shareholder resolution calling on the bank to disclose its climate risks and publish a plan to align investments to the Paris Agreement.

  • Nordea AM launches first ESG-based fixed income fund

    28 January 2019

    Nordea Asset Management, the largest private investor in the Nordic region, has launched a fixed-income fund based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria.