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Bettina Lange has been responsible for Castellum's Danish activities for the past seven years. | Foto: PR
People

Castellum's Danish country manager to join Norwegian pension investor

Swedish Castellum loses its Danish country manager, Bettina Lange, who will become CEO of Norwegian-owned KLP Ejendomme based in Copenhagen.
  • Norwegian pension fund acquires major property in Copenhagen
  • Heimstaden CIO spots black clouds above Sweden's real estate market

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Adam Kybird is the fund manager of the Triodos Food Transition Europe Fund. | Foto: PR/Triodos
Fund Management

Impact pioneer eyes investor appetite for a food revolution

As interest from institutional investors grows, Dutch impact investor Triodos Investment Management is aiming to make several new additions to its Food Transition Europe Fund.

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Ingrid Bonde has stepped down as chair of Alecta's board. | Foto: Evelina Carborn / Alecta PR
Pension

Alecta’s chair resigns from board of the troubled Swedish pension giant

Ingrid Bonde has chaired Alecta during a turbulent period when risky investments in Heimstaden Bostad and three US niche banks came under increased scrutiny. Now she is history at the pension giant. 

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70 companies are part of the Science Based Targets climate initiative. | Foto: Jens Dresling
Responsible Investing

Two Danish pension funds first in the world to receive approval from climate initiative

In the future, AkademikerPension and PensionDanmark will push their portfolio companies to meet CO2 targets due to the Science Based Targets initiative’s validation of the funds’ climate plans.

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Mandatum, Handelsbanken and Storebrand were the real winners of Q2

In AMWatch’s comparison of the Nordic asset managers, we take a closer look at net flows and what the managers see as drivers behind them in Q2 and the first half of 2023. 

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Head of the public pension sector at Storebrand, Jon M. Hippe. | Foto: Kristian Skalland Moen/Storebrand
Pension

Storebrand maintains its first municipal pension deal

Askøy municipality was Storebrand’s first municipal pension client, and the deal has now been extended.

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Ole Mikkelsen joined as head of commercial real estate fund BI Erhvervsejendomme in January 2020 and has since then also been responsible for residential rental properties fund BI Boligejendomme. | Foto: PR / Bankinvest
Fund Management

BankInvest's two alternative funds in negative territory

Investors have withdrawn from BankInvest’s two alternative real estate funds in the first half of 2023, and the funds are expected to deliver negative returns for the remainder of the year.

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Carl Haglund (l.), CEO of Veritas and Carl Pettersson, CEO of Elo. | Foto: PR Veritas and Elo.
Pension

Finnish pension fund CEOs propose higher risk to overcome demographics

CEOs of pension insurance companies Veritas and Elo comment on the Finnish government’s plans to kick off yet another pension reform as part of efforts to save the welfare state.
  • Keva to buy EUR 6.4bn of equities as part of risk increase
  • Finnish pension giant is increasing risk "significantly" to grow returns

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Alecta’s CEO rejects controversial Heimstaden investment

The Swedish pension giant’s new CEO understands if Alecta’s customers are angry with the much criticized investment in Heimstaden Bostad, he says in a newspaper interview.

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Hanna Porkka will join OP Financial Group next spring as executive vice president, wealth management. | Foto: PR OP.
People

S-Bank's head of WM moves to bigger role and asset volumes at OP

S-Bank is looking for a new head of wealth management and deputy CEO, following Hanna Porkka’s announcement that she is joining OP Financial Group next spring. 

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Mandatum headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. | Foto: PR / Mandatum
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Mandatum set to debut in Helsinki in biggest listing since 2005

Sampo Oyj is spinning off its unit Mandatum, the biggest addition to Helsinki’s stock market in almost two decades.

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Kim Mikkelsen (left) sees positive prospects in Jan Johan Kühl and Polaris' decision to enter the market for listed companies. | Foto: Strategic Investments/Polaris
Fund Management

Polaris welcomed into new territory: "There is a huge need for capital"

Kim Mikkelsen, CIO of Strategic Investments, thinks that valuations are currently at an attractive level in the small-cap segment.

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Foto: Agustin Marcarian/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
Responsible Investing

AP2 teams up with think tank to identify deforestation exposure in global portfolios

A collaboration between Swedish buffer fund AP2 and think tank Climate & Company aims to offer other investors a guideline to identify potential exposure to deforestation.

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Only one Nordic fund market increased its AUM in August

While the Norwegian and Finnish investment fund markets continued to see positive net flows in August, Swedish and Danish markets saw outflows. (Updated)

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Foto: Nord Investments / Pr
Fund Management

Loss-making trading platform plans to delist

NORD.Investments, which offers robotic investment advice, may soon be a thing of the past at small business exchange First North, where the company was listed in 2021.

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Charlotte Mansson (left) and Elisabeth Sterner are BlackRock's head of sustainable & transition solutions, Nordics and Netherlands, and head of Nordics, respectively. | Foto: BlackRock PR / Jeppe Carlsen / Håkan Målbäck
Responsible Investing

BlackRock: High number of US investors plan to increase allocation to green transition

More than half of the institutional investors polled in a new BlackRock survey are planning to increase their low-carbon allocation. In the Nordic region and the US, the percentage is even higher.

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Alecta - under the leadership of new CEO Peder Hasslev - is trying to reassure its customers about their pension savings. | Foto: PR / Alecta
Pension

Despite predicting more losses, Alecta is prepared to increase Heimstaden investment

The Swedish pension giant has reinvested profits from its investments in Heimstaden Bostad in the troubled real estate company. The most recent investment consisted entirely of share dividends.

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Most read

  1. 1
    Finnish pension fund CEOs propose higher risk to overcome demographics
  2. 2
    BankInvest's two alternative funds in negative territory
  3. 3
    Alecta’s chair resigns from board of the troubled Swedish pension giant
  4. 4
    S-Bank's head of WM moves to bigger role and asset volumes at OP
  5. 5
    Two Danish pension funds first in the world to receive approval from climate initiative


"The market has been much weaker than we predicted," says Storebrand AM's head of real estate, Truls Nergaard, about the last couple of years. | Foto: PR
Fund Management

Asset management giant in the wake of the crisis: Foreign investors are looking to the Nordics again

Transactions in the Nordic real estate markets are moving again. ”It’s getting crowded,” says Storebrand AM’s head of real estate, Truls Nergaard.

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GENDER BALANCE: It takes time to achieve gender balance "and it must take time. Promotions must be fair," says NBIM CEO Nicolai Tangen. | Photo: Synnøve Prytz Berset
AMNews

Nicolai Tangen is a huge fan of the Women in Finance Charter but stresses that promotions must be fair

The proportion of women at Norway’s oil fund is increasing and more women are staying, but the transition takes time.

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The outside tower is painted in a steel gray color, but the inside is untreated, with the Finnish spruce wood grain on full display. | Foto: PR / Modvion
AMNews

Startup bets wood can make wind turbines even greener

Swedish startup Modvion is building a wind turbine tower out of wood, aiming to reduce the carbon footprint by more than 90%.

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CIO of AkademikerPension Anders Schelde, | Foto: Pr/mp Pension
Pension

Pension funds abandon dialogues with oil majors and divest shares

Engaging in a dialogue with climate-harming oil and gas companies does not help, says AkademikerPension, among others. PFA holds the opposite view.

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Flemming Højbo writes analyses for AMWatch about the Nordic asset and wealth management sector. Højbo was head of communications in the asset management industry for 15 years, and before that, he worked for 25 years as financial and business reporter and editor. | Foto: Jan Bjarke Mindegaard
Fund Management

Analysis: Will Nordic investors take the lead in the battle of biodiversity?

Investors have increased their focus on biodiversity, though it is a complex area. Could some of the major Nordic investors become frontrunners of such complex problem-solving? 

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From left: The portfolio managers Joakim By, Christoffer Halldin and Simon Park who were all poached from Handelsbanken Fonder last year to take charge of Coeli's sustainable "Circulus" strategy. | Foto: PR/Coeli
Fund Management

Swedish asset manager kicks off new fund with leading Nordic institution

Demand from institutional investors has prompted Coeli to launch a new Article 9 fund focused on US-small cap companies. 

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Hanna Kaskela, senior vice president, sustainability & communications at Varma.
AMNews

More than one third of managers do not report ESG violations to Varma, despite shared values

In a fresh survey by Varma, only 62% of fund managers employed by the pensions giant say they would inform the company about violations of ESG principles. 

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Danes risk paying too much and getting too poor returns in Danish investment funds if the ratio between costs and returns is not evaluated by the board of directors, says the Danish FSA. | Foto: Thomas Borberg
Fund Management

Danish FSA criticizes investment funds for inadequate evaluation between costs and returns

The Danish FSA has investigated seven investment funds with unsatisfactory returns and/or high costs, and the authority now calls for better evaluation from the boards of mutual funds.

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Maria Storm Kristensen is the new chief technology officer at BankInvest. | Foto: PR
People

BankInvest to optimize investment processes with new hire

On Oct. 1, Maria Storm Kristensen will join Danish asset management and investment fund provider BankInvest as chief technology officer.
  • BankInvest amps up institutional sales as retail disappoints
  • Mandatum, Handelsbanken and Storebrand were the real winners of Q2

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Foto: Nbim
AMNews

World’s no. 1 stock owner calls out Big Oil as carbon levels go up

The manager of Norway’s gigantic oil fund regularly meets with the biggest emitters in its portfolio, says its chief governance and compliance officer Carine Smith Ihenacho. 

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Olivier Van Eyseren, head of BlackRock’s financial institutions group in EMEA, and Jon Valdelin, head of Nordic institutional client business at BlackRock. | Foto: PR BlackRock.
AMNews

Nordics show clear appetite for new asset classes, BlackRock survey reveals

Nearly 70% of Nordic respondents in BlackRock’s survey are looking to invest in clean energy infrastructure, says Jon Valdelin, head of institutional client business for Nordic Region at BlackRock.

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Emine Isciel, head of climate and environment at Storebrand Asset Management. | Foto: PR / Storebrand
Responsible Investing

28 Nordic investors in new alliance to engage companies on nature risk

The investors have sent out letters to the 100 companies outlining their expectations of how the companies will mitigate nature-related risks. Four Nordic companies feature on the list. 

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  • Alecta’s chair resigns from board of the troubled Swedish pension giant –
  • BankInvest's two alternative funds in negative territory –
  • S-Bank's head of WM moves to bigger role and asset volumes at OP –
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