Nykredit will to invest in socially responsible

Nykredit will to exercise social responsibility in its own investments and in the investeringsprojketer, recommended to clients. Ethical investment is a requirement in the future if Nykredit be involved in an investment project. Financial Group wants to come solely to invest in sustainable projects.

Nykredit start to review the current portfolio

As a start, the Financial Group, attached to a screening agency, and has begun to check the current papers live up to their new code of ethics - and they choose the "bad" ones from. The exchange said Nykredit to Besides a "nicer" and more moral image of the sustainable cap signals, expects financial group also that the new ethical line while throwing larger gains from them.

Return or not - are living companies in the investment portfolio is not up to international standards for sustainability is based on Nykredit ready to scrap the papers, says Vice President Lars Bo Bertram for Exchange.

Review the current portfolio at Nykredit proceeds in three steps.

Nykredit want to:

• identify equities and corporate bonds in our portfolios where the issuing companies do not comply with the standards established
• initiate dialogue with companies that do not comply with the standards for real improvements in behavior
• sell stocks in companies that do not comply with the standards and where the dialogue does not entail a change in behavior

Resting on widely accepted conventions and standards

The basis of Nykredit's sustainable investment policy is the UN's six Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI). Nykredit joined UNPRI in February 2009 and then follow the recommendations to include consideration of environmental, social responsibility and corporate governance issues into investment analysis and decision making. The policy also rests on the UN Global Compact's ten principles for business integration of environmental, human rights, labor rights and anti-corruption as well as other widely accepted international conventions and standards adopted by the EU or the Danish government.

How persistent is Nykredit?

It is an ambitious project Nykredit has been started, and it will be interesting both to monitor how customers respond well to the new policy throws better return on the Group and its customers?

It is also interesting about Nykredit dare to be persistent - even if the decision on short-term cost group and its customers money?

• Read more about the project at Nykredit - Click here
• Nykredit's sustainable investment policy - Click here
• Visit Nykredit's blog - click here
• Read the article in Borsen - click here
• Read about Bank Sarasin, which has a similar policy - click here

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