An $85 Billion Asset Manager Is Planning a Total Exit From Coal

The biggest publicly traded life insurer in Norway, Storebrand ASA, is planning a total exit from coal by 2026.

Jan Erik Saugestad.

They’re one of a widening field of investors withdrawing from the most polluting fossil fuels as the threat of climate change reshapes asset management. The asset manager has already excluded 64 companies with ties to coal since it introduced its first restrictions in 2013. Norway’s $990 billion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, cut its exposure to coal after introducing similar rules in 2015.

Oslo-based Storebrand, which has $85 billion in assets under management, already refrains from investing in companies that get more than 30 percent of their revenue from coal. Those restrictions will be gradually tightened over the next eight years, it said.

Read the story from Bloomberg by Mikael Holter - “An $85 Billion Asset Manager Is Planning a Total Exit From Coal.”