AP7’s equity and fixed income funds are the biggest on the Swedish market. Removing them leaves just 9% for the others on the top ten list - but that 9% is dominated by one major bank, Morningstar figures show.
Investors fled every major asset class in the past week, with US equities and Treasuries a rare exception to the massive exodus, amid concerns that tightening monetary policy will push major economies into a recession.
A new active ownership policy is being developed at Lærernes Pension, says the CIO, and the final version will be approved by the board in June.
The market turmoil in the first three months of the year has had more of an effect on Evli than outflows, though the fact that international investors have pulled out of Evli’s corporate bond fund has been felt.
A new Chief Sustainability Officer at the Nordic is joining the manager’s private equity subsidiary from Allianz.
Allianz Investment Management and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners will look into options for setting up an artificial energy island in the German part of the North Sea.
A law professor and lecturer in company leadership has accused Lærernes Pension of diverging from the shareholder rights directive that became Danish law in 2019.
As part of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, BankInvest has committed to reaching net zero CO2 emissions by 2050, and has now introduced a 2030 interim goal.
The German insurer will pay USD 6bn in a fraud suit in the US.
While further declines on the financial markets affected assets under management in all four Nordic fund markets, managers weathered a turbulent April with varying success, AMWatch’s monthly review shows.
Sweden’s biggest pension company has begun buying government bonds after a prolonged period of razor-thin yields that forced the fund into alternative and riskier asset classes to preserve returns.
AIP Management, which is owned by one Norwegian and four Danish pension companies, has made an investment in a company that owns 115 electric trains.
Professional investors overwhelmingly prefer to use actively managed funds to deal with environmental, social and governance risks, according to a report from Capital Group that suggests the recent surge in passive ESG strategies may be at odds with industry needs.
Pension funds in Denmark have been indirectly exposed to the current crypto downturn through investments in companies that use these currencies to conduct business.
The head of sustainability at EQT will be joining UBS to lead its European ESG advisory team.
Formuepleje’s Fokus fund is down by 18 percent since the start of the year.
The Dutch asset manager believes it has solved a puzzle for passive equity investors that want to replace market cap exposures with a sustainable alternative.
The fund manager has found its new head of sustainability at Nordea Asset Management.
On Aug. 1, a new head of alternative investments will join Nykredit Asset Management.
Compared to 2018, there are more institutional investors with exposure to crypto and most see this as a buying opportunity, says Paul Veradittakit, partner at digital asset manager Pantera Capital.
Market turmoil has hit KLP hard, but the group was well-prepared for the downturn.
As the Danish, German, Dutch and Belgian governments plan to significantly increase offshore wind projects in the North Sea, PKA CEO Jon Johnsen is ready for the Danish pension fund to do its part.
The soon-to-be former Head of Sustainable investing at PFA, Sasja Beslik, recently said he was “sick of greenwashing”. Talking to AMWatch, he berates the global ESG industry, calling most funds an empty construct.
Some of Aktia’s international investors started to rebalance away from emerging market products as a consequence of Russia’s newest attack on Ukraine, says CEO Mikko Ayub. The Finnish manager has several new products under development.
The Head of Active Equity and Fixed Income Management is one of three top-level employees that Sweden’s second largest fund manager has lost to Coeli in a short space of time. He brought the two others onboard to launch a new fund at Coeli after the summer.
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