Archive

  • Länsförsäkringar blacklists BlackRock funds

    28 April 2022

    Swedish insurer excludes two funds on fossil fuel and ESG breaches

  • Länsförsäkringar nearly doubled its investments in ESG bonds in 2020

    14 April 2021

    Most of the SEK 7.5bn investments were in climate related bonds

  • High ESG scores don't correlate to being controversy-free, Länsförsäkringar research shows

    22 March 2021

    Swedish insurer building AI tool to tackle ESG data limitations

  • Länsförsäkringar argues for sustainable forestry in EU Taxonomy

    24 December 2020

    Under current regulations forestry in the Nordics cannot be classified as sustainable

  • Länsförsäkringar pursues further exclusion of gambling companies

    05 October 2020

    Companies incompatible with sustainable development goals and ESG, head of responsible investment said

  • Folksam invests SEK 474m in domestic government's first green bond

    09 September 2020

    Follows fellow Swedish company Skandia's participation

  • Länsförsäkringar increased green and social investments by SEK 3bn in Q1

    18 May 2020

    Invested across 80 issuers, including in four COVID-19-fighting bonds

  • Three Swedish firms invest in IFC's SEK 3bn coronavirus bond

    20 March 2020

    As the World Bank announces $14bn financial package to help curb the pandemic

  • Länsförsäkringar warns non-European managers to raise their game on ESG

    15 October 2019

    Swedish mutual has fired managers unprepared to apply its exclusion criteria

  • Reporting standardisation needed amid reticence to SDG bonds

    20 June 2019

    Pimco says fear of SDG-washing greatest hurdle to market expansion