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