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Three Swedish firms invest in IFC's SEK 3bn coronavirus bond
20 March 2020As the World Bank announces $14bn financial package to help curb the pandemic
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Swedish insurer group posts massive investment income rise
17 February 2020Länsförsäkringar Alliance's total investment income stood at SEK 13.1bn for 2019
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Länsförsäkringar warns non-European managers to raise their game on ESG
15 October 2019Swedish mutual has fired managers unprepared to apply its exclusion criteria
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Länsförsäkringar introduces transition criteria to coal divestment policy
14 October 2019Swedish insurer hopes to encourage corporates on a sustainable pathway
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Reporting standardisation needed amid reticence to SDG bonds
20 June 2019Pimco says fear of SDG-washing greatest hurdle to market expansion
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Länsförsäkringar exits Brazil’s Vale over Brumadinho dam disaster
09 May 2019Swedish insurer is selling its shares in miner after tailings dam flood killed at least 237 people
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UN’s environmental agency launches insurers group
13 November 2018To develop climate risk assessment tools
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Impact investing or impact washing?
13 June 2018Insurers say they can find financial value in ESG investing, but they have to be wise to investments that don't deliver on their stated goals. And while ESG can mean different things to different stakeholders, a push for standardisation is not always welcome, according to panellists at Insurance Asset Risk's 2018 EMEA conference. Vincent Huck reports
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Swedish insurers invest in SEK500m green bond
13 December 2017Green bonds issued by Örebro total SEK1.8bn
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Solvency II filings reveal extent of life insurers' illiquid investments
28 June 2017Insurance Risk Data, the data service offered by the publishers of IAR, examined the QRTs of Europe's largest life companies that together run €1trn of investments and found they had allocated €375.7bn to five illiquid asset classes. David Walker reports