Responsibility

Our commitment to sustainable investments

We are strongly committed to responsible investing and promoting sound ESG-principles. ESG-factors are an integral part of our investments process and due diligence, consisting of a structured assessment of both opportunities and risks related to ESG. Together with other stakeholders, we ensure that our portfolio companies have the approach and the guidance necessary to achieve their ESG-related goals. We believe that by actively enhancing sustainability aspects across our portfolio companies, companies will strengthen their business models and long-term competitive advantages by being future-proof. Furthermore, we believe that responsible investing can enable higher risk-adjusted returns our investors and it is also the right thing to do.

Responsibility and ESG principles

Armada is committed to responsible investing. As a financing provider, Armada believes that responsible investing and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) are important aspects when evaluating the debt service capacity of the portfolio companies’ and when managing investment risks and returns in the short- and long-term.

Armada is fully committed to promoting sound ESG principles. Sustainability factors are an integral part of our investment process and due diligence, consisting of a structured assessment of both opportunities and risks. Armada ensures that the portfolio companies have the approach and the guidance they need to achieve their sustainability goals and Armada is actively working together with them in achieving these goals.

Read more on our approach in our Responsible Investment Policy.

Notice on EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)

The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR”) 2019/2088 involves new transparency obligations and periodic reporting requirements for fund management companies at both a product and company level. The SFDR requires financial market participants to publish on their websites:

  • Information about their policies on the integration of sustainability risks in their investment decisions
  • Information on how they consider principal adverse impacts of investment decisions on sustainability factors or if they do not consider adverse impacts of investment decisions on sustainability factors, clear reasons for why they do not, including information as to whether and when they intend to consider such adverse impacts
  • Information on how integration of sustainability risks is included in their remuneration policies

Policies on the integration of sustainability risks

Sustainability risks, being environmental, social or governance events, if they occur, could cause a negative material impact on the value of the investments, are considered by Armada in its investment processes and due diligence procedures.

Read more on our approach in our Sustainability Risks and Principle Adverse Impacts document.

Remuneration

Armada’s remuneration principles are specified in the Remuneration Policy. The remuneration is not in conflict with principles specified in the Responsible Investment Policy.

Statements on principal adverse impacts on sustainability factors

Armada considers principal adverse impacts (PAI) of its investment decisions on sustainability factors and has published the information required by Article 4 of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 (SFDR) on its website hereof.

Armada’s Statement on principal adverse impacts of investment decisions on sustainability factors outlines the adverse impacts considered, its approach to identifying and prioritizing these impacts, engagement policies, references to international standards, and availability of historical comparisons.

The full consolidated statement in English can be found here.

Summaries of the statement in English, Finnish, Spanish, French, Swedish and German can be found here.

Armada Fund VI

Sustainability related disclosures: link to the document can be found here.