BlackRock acquires tech and healthcare investor Kreos Capital to add to its position as a ”global credit asset manager.”

Alfred Berg’s Nordic high-yield fund has outperformed the leading Norwegian equity index for the last five years. 

1 Gigaton Fund aims to reduce carbon emissions by 1 GT through sustainable investments ahead of 2050. The fund invests in some sectors that do not exactly rhyme with carbon neutrality.

Denmark’s central bank doesn’t necessarily see divestments of high-emitting companies as the best way to support the green transition.

SoftCapital CEO Lars Pehrsson says pension fund portfolio managers feared the software would make them redundant. Now, the software company has established its own AI-drive fund: Robofunds.

The SPAC is looking to acquire a tech-enabled high-growth company, it said when it was launched in 2021 backed by several notable institutional investors in Finland.

Whilst Nordea does not wish to expand its defense investments, it does plan to broaden its product range in other areas, says head of Nordea Asset & Wealth Management Snorre Storset.

The ESG fund with the biggest exposure to Nvidia Corp. has just beaten 99% of its peers, as bets on artificial intelligence transform the fortunes of portfolios promoting ESG principles.

Banks are becoming less willing to act as counterparts in deals of sales and repurchases of bonds. This entails a liquidity risk for pension funds, Denmark’s central bank points out.

A weakened Norwegian currency, a well-performing Swedish stock market and differences in net flows were the main ingredients for differences in AUM performances among the Nordic asset managers in Q1.

The manager of the Norwegian oil fund has found that legal action against companies it invests in is so lucrative that it wants to be lead litigator in the case against Silicon Valley Bank.