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Report on responsible investments: And it's no sacrifice

In April, we hosted an institutional investor conference in Stockholm, with speakers and attendees from seven different countries. The title of the conference was “Pareto improvements in the agile Nordic markets”. Besides the obvious play on our company name, the title may need a bit of explanation for those who did not participate.

 Learn more in our latest report on responsible investing, no. 1-2024. 

Sustainability report 2022

Being a Nordic Swan Ecolabelled fixed income fund, Pareto ESG Global Corporate Bond represents a sustainability-labelled alternative for investors.

One of our obligations as a Swan-labelled fund is to publish an annual report on the sustainability performance of the fund.

Read about our work in our latest Sustainability report 2022.

Financial markets and the economy in 2022

The past year turned out to be unusually eventful, with outright war, sharply rising interest rates and towering warnings of an imminent recession. It also turned a lot of accepted wisdom on its head.

The defining event of 2022, by far, was the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The financial world lost no time in condemning it as a horrifying act of aggression but, in retrospect, took far longer to realize the financial consequences. One week after the invasion, the S&P 500 was up almost 4%. At the end of the year, it was an altogether different story.