The Swedish manager recently poached a team from Handelsbanken Fonder with the aim of launching a brand new Article 9 fund after the summer. Coeli’s CEO Lukas Lindkvist and CIO Erik Lundkvist tell AMWatch more about the fund and its investment focus.
Summer series: Storebrand AM Head of Institutional & Distribution Clients Jørgen Hjemdal is pleased with the development in the first half year after Norway’s largest asset manager significantly ramped up operations across the Nordics and saw healthy exports of its solutions across Europe.
The biggest asset manager in the Nordics has hired a PineBridge Investments executive to head distribution unit.
The green bond market was a hive of activity in 2021, but the tempo of new issuances has slowed this year.
The survey found that 87% of European buyside traders said governance is “important” or “very important” to their business, especially in vendor and counterparty relationships.
Changes to the MiFID regulations come into force today, August 2.
The social taxonomy, the next step in the EU’s plans to create global benchmark’s for ESG investing, is opening up old wounds and splitting MEPs.
Past months’ downturn on the cryptocurrency market will sort out bad projects from the good, assesses Lars Seier Christensen, who’s fully behind his own crypto company Concordium, whose coin has dropped 75% this year alone.
ESG rating bureaus such as Sustainalytics and MSCI report that big investors are still guided by ESG scores, boding poorly for big companies restarting coal-fired power plants and factory boilers.
Triodos Energy Transition Europe Fund has purchased a minority position in Danish green energy developer Windspace, also gaining a board seat.
An ESG fund run by Alken Asset Management has outperformed 98% of its peers over the past year, helped by a bet on European defense stocks while they were still cheap.
A text sent by BlackRock to financial advisers has opened up a conversation about the relative scarcity of value-based investing among managers of ESG funds.
Fund manager sees signs of greater interest in fossil fuels on the heels of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The second-largest fund manager on the Swedish market has kept its domestic momentum in Q2. Deputy CEO Henrik Åhman tells AMWatch he expects the trend to continue in the quarters to come.
Even though the Danish pension company has officially excluded coal investments since 2017, the firm maintains interest in at least 26 coal companies, attracting critique from researchers and climate groups. Lærernes claims its policy is not breached yet vows closer inspection of screening provider.
Earlier this year, PensionDanmark CEO Torben Möger Pedersen became the chairman of a new ”think-and-do tank” – the CIP Foundation, which works to create a more sustainable future and make Denmark a leading Power-to-X country.
CEO Jan Erik Saugestad explains Storebrand’s fairly modest net outflow in the second quarter with sustainability and alternatives offerings.
Despite AUM dropping further in the quarter, BankInvest CEO Lars Bo Bertram points to what he calls a ”nice net inflow.”
2022 has brought a sharp decline in initial public offerings in the Nordics, and funding rounds at some firms like Klarna have also shrunk. However, there’s light at the end of the tunnel, says Deutsche Bank’s Nordic lead.
A worldwide effort to strengthen the powers of countries outside the US to tax big firms like Amazon and Facebook is facing difficulties on multiple fronts, which is setting back attempts to implement new systems.
Entropics Asset Management, known in the Swedish market for its insurance-linked securities funds, is launching a global equity fund focusing on SDGs related to marine preservation.
Climate ETFs draw buyers despite institutional investors becoming increasingly concerned about industry performance.
The data provider has developed a product alongside one of the biggest asset managers in the Nordic region. The regulatory environment has prompted one of the region’s biggest life insurers to start using the platform.
Stuart Kirk gave a conference speech in May which prompted his employer to suspend him and people in the industry to call his comments “grossly flawed”.
PKA is joining forces with a London-based ESG asset manager to create a new sustainable equity strategy targeting companies that are good at reducing carbon emissions, water usage and waste.
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