Sustainability

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Exchanging ideas about Responsible Investments

2012-04-11 | Antti Savilaakso
Antti recently attended the ESG Asia conference in Singapore and shares his experience from this event.
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“All good business is an art”

2012-03-30 | Sasja Beslik
Boston Harvard - about 90 young global leaders discussing the world as it is, trying to grasp, to understand how it will turn out. The feeling of globalization is almost physically tangible, the curriculum even more so.
Earth hour 1

Lights out in Nordea

2012-03-28
On 31 March 2012 Nordea switches off the light from 20.30 to 21.30 in all head offices and in over 1,400 branches.
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Mumbai – city of infinity

2012-02-10 | Klaus Fridorf
Nordea is in Mumbai to meet companies and to identify Indian companies performing well from an environmental, social, governance as well as financial perspective.
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Sustainable value creation and Swedish companies

2012-01-27 | Ylva Hannestad
This week the investor collaborative project Sustainable Value Creation launched its report.
Skog, flod

Global companies and water management

2011-11-17 | Ylva Hannestad
Nordea has been a signatory to CDP Water Project since 2010, the aim of the project is to collect and spread information concerning water-related risks and opportunities.

Banking & sustainability

2011-11-07 | Sasja Beslik
How to work with sustainability as a bank is not always that straightforward. In my view many of key ESG risks for banks is indirect and linked to its investment and financing of companies and projects.
The white paper

Nordea best bank in the Nordic CDP report

2011-10-24
Nordea received a joint fourth place in the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) report released 21 October and was the best bank in the Nordics.
Ylva Hannestad

Guest blogger Lina Johansson: A question of taking responsibility

2011-10-24 | Ylva Hannestad
Human rights and environmental issues are perhaps not something one usually associates with large listed companies. But Nordea Fonder has worked actively with these issues for many years
An academic perspective on responsible investment

An academic perspective on responsible investment

2011-10-14 | Ylva Hannestad
What are the link between sustainability and the value of a firm? Which are the key drivers for investors’ working with responsible investment?
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Leaving home teaches you something - Field visit to Asia

2011-10-07 | Antti Savilaakso
My mother likes to say, “leaving home always, always, teaches you something” I realized this many times as a child of course, but the wisdom of it still touches me today. Even within our professional lives in Responsible Investments.
Responsible returns the work behind the words

Guest blogger Zandra Åhlin: Responsible returns – the work behind the words

2011-09-30 | Ylva Hannestad
Nordea Investment Funds is well known for its skilled portfolio managers and its competitiveness. But did you know that our funds are also competitive because we strive to combine returns with responsibility?
SRI, ESG, CG, UN PRI, FinSIF, ICGN, Eurosif, GC,EITI, CDP, TI…

SRI, ESG, CG, UN PRI, FinSIF, ICGN, Eurosif, GC,EITI, CDP, TI…

2011-09-26 | Antti Savilaakso
First steps within Responsible Investments can be confusing as the industry utilizes a wide variety of concepts that are all typically referred to by their own, sometimes cryptic, acronyms.
Ideal responsible investment analyst?

Ideal responsible investment analyst?

2011-09-16 | Antti Savilaakso
A typical week of a Responsible Investment analyst consists of addressing a large variety of diverse topics. Why and how the internet is being censored in different parts of the world?
Lasting prosperity

Lasting prosperity

2011-09-09 | Sasja Beslik
Imagine you are riding comfortably on a train. You look out the window and see that the tracks end abruptly not too far ahead ...
ESG Perspectives on Africa

Bartholomew Remix

2011-08-15 | Sasja Beslik
Which continent has six of the ten fastest growing economies in the world? Asia? No, it’s Africa.
Identifying companies with potential

Identifying companies with potential

2011-08-09 | Ylva Hannestad
Over the past half-year we have analyzed more than 60 Swedish companies and met a bunch of them, all in order to find the best companies in terms of ESG as well as financial performance and potential.
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Finding tomorrow’s stars

2011-07-21 | Helena Hagberg
People residing in and businesses operating in emerging markets are in the midst of global challenges. Changing weather patterns, water scarcity, demographic changes etc. are more tangible in New Delhi than in the Nordic capitals.
Addressing difficult issues

Guest blogger Anna Otterheim: Addressing difficult issues

2011-07-14 | Ylva Hannestad
My plunge into Nordea's way of working with Responsible Investment made me realize the difficulties we face every day when investing in global companies

Valley of words

2011-07-08 | Sasja Beslik
Every year Swedish political and business elite accompanied by thousands of hungry PR consultants and lobbyists are visiting Visby on Gotland, maybe for many reasons but most of all to bee seen and heard.
Field visit to Malaysia and Indonesia

Sustainable produced palm oil? Field visit to Malaysia and Indonesia

2011-05-17 | Ylva Hannestad
Palm oil is used in a wide range of products, such as cosmetics, food products and biofuel.
Doing business in Russia is a challenge

Doing business in Russia is a challenge

2011-04-28 | Helena Hagberg
Research made for our new ESG-fund (Enviromental, Social & Governance) on Russian companies combined with the fact that many of our Nordic companies operates in Russia, triggered a trip to visit Moscow and St Petersburg.
The white paper

The white paper - steps into evolution

2011-04-21 | Sasja Beslik
Broken shapes on the surface of a white paper. It does not add some people will say, others will see the tremendous opportunities. Well, the world has always been changing, and the next 30 years the changes will be even greater.
Equal pay for equal work

The right of equal pay for equal work

2011-04-15 | Ylva Hannestad
Labor rights are a fundamental human right, yet these basic rights are violated all over the world. Every day people are forced to work overtime to get a living wage.

Nordea's Sasja Beslik awarded for work with responsible investments

2011-03-10
Sasja Beslik, head of responsible investments & governance at Nordea, has been awarded the title of Young Global Leader 2011 by the World Economic Forum.

Nordea's Sasja Beslik awarded for work with responsible investments

2011-03-09

Nordea partners with Carbon Disclosure Project

2010-05-26