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Foto: Thomas Borberg/Ritzau Scanpix

Danes' equity holdings shrank by 9% in 2022

Danish investors’ total holdings of equities receded by DKK 57bn (EUR 7.7bn) over last year, new figures from Denmark’s central bank show.
  • Danes change pension companies more frequently than Swedes
  • AP Pension CIO craves more nuance in debate on alternatives

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Speed is of the essence when launching new investment products, CFO Masih Yazdi says. | Foto: PR / SEB

SEB aims for speedy product launches to make up for huge AUM drop in 2022

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Maunu Lehtimäki, CEO of Evli. | Foto: PR Evli.

Alternative sales grow and net flows start to stabilize at Finland's Evli

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Archive. Financial district Barcode in Bjørvika, Oslo. | Photo: Jörgen Skjelsbæk

Here is how Norwegian fund managers performed in 2022

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Foto: Mike Blake/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

Morgan Stanley fines its bankers over messaging breaches

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Foto: PR/SEB

Slight recovery in SEB’s AUM in fourth quarter – but outflow continues

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  • Simon Cooke is the portfolio manager for BNY Mellon's new Responsible Horizons EM Debt Impact Fund. | Foto: PR/ BNY Mellon

    BNY Mellon launches EMD impact fund as issuances take off

    One of the world’s largest asset managers has launched a new emerging market debt impact fund, and expects the Nordics to take part as one of its largest investor groups, Portfolio Manager Simon Cooke tells AMWatch.

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  • Storebrand Fonder CEO Åsa Wallenberg considers sustainability a guiding principle for the company. | Foto: Fredrik Hjerling

    Storebrand Fonder provides more than three-quarters of Swedish fund inflow

    The fund manager contributed the lion’s share of net inflow to the Swedish fund market last year – SEK 14.5bn of a SEK 19bn total. Sustainability is the key to the company’s investment policy.

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  • BankInvest has hired 33-year-old Tore Davidsen as new Senior Portfolio Manager | Foto: Bankinvest / Pr

    Asset manager acquires new portfolio manager from SEB

    BankInvest arms up on alternatives and acquires senior portfolio manager for their new investment fund, Børsnoterede Alternativer.

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  • Foto: PR/ Allianz

    Private equity’s loved assets turn problem children in downturn

    The private equity industry finds itself in unexplored waters after a long period of prosperous growth – the downturn forces managers to reconsider their next move.

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  • Rasmus Cederholm, CIO of Danish pension firm AP Pension. | Foto: PR / AP Pension

    AP Pension CIO craves more nuance in debate on alternatives

    Alternative investments are heterogeneous by nature, which is why it makes sense that returns aren’t proportionately similar across companies, says the Danish pension company’s investment chief.

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  • Foto: Michael M. Santiago/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix

    Morgan Stanley says US stocks aren’t pricing weak data

    Strategist at US investment manager warns against premature bullishness among traders eager to emerge from last year’s financial market slump, highlighting failure to incorporate weakness in current economic data, however still projecting a rally in next year’s equities.
  • Jacob Schlawitz (left) is the CEO of Max Matthiessen. Mikael Tjäder (right) is the CEO of Fondab, which will soon become fully integrated with Max Matthiessen. | Foto: Max Matthiessen / PR - Fondab / PR

    The core of Max Matthiessen's business "will always be insurance brokerage"

    Max Matthiessen’s recent acquisition of Fondab will not be its last. The Swedish insurance and finance company aims to own more of the value chain, CEO Jacob Schlawitz tells AMWatch. 

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  • NIB's CFO, Kim Skov Jensen, expects demand for loans to environmental projects to continue in 2023. | Foto: Nordic Investment Bank

    NIB issues first ‘green’ bond of 2023

    Following record demand for loans to environmental projects in 2022, the Nordic Investment Bank predicts another busy year in sustainable bond markets.

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  • Foto: Pexels: Stein Egil Liland.

    Positive December fund flows bring two Nordic countries into plus for 2022

    Net investments into funds in Sweden and Norway were positive in 2022 despite negative financial markets in December. The story was different in Finland, and particularly in Denmark which suffered the most brutal year of the four.

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  • Foto: Pexels: Mihis Alex.

    Three Nordic AM companies on Global 100 sustainability list

    Newcomer Svenska Handelsbanken is the best performer of the three in 72nd place.

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  • Mandatum Asset Management’s CEO Lauri Vaittinen. | Foto: Mandatum PR.

    Pensions giant and state-backed investor anchor new Finnish growth fund

    Mandatum Asset Management’s new private equity growth fund held its first close at the end of 2022.

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  • AkademikerPension CEO Jens Munch Holst. | Foto: Pr/akademikerpension

    Danish pension firm buys Irish offshore wind stake alongside CIP

    AkademikerPension signs on as co-investor with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) in buying half interest in Norwegian utility Stakraft’s Irish offshore wind portfolio.

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  • Savings economist Philip Scholtzè gives credit to savers who are "brave at the end of the year." | Foto: Karl Gabor / Fondbolagens Förening

    Swedish fund assets declined by SEK 884bn in 2022

    Swedish funds lost a lot of money last year, but by the end of 2022, their combined assets were still three times larger than in 2010, the Swedish Investment Fund Association notes.

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  • CEO of Norges Bank Investment (NBIM), Nicolai Tangen. | Foto: Tony Colli/PR

    NBIM CEO sees private equity as "potentially interesting"

    Norway’s Oil Fund is in the early stages of examining whether it should put money to work in private equity, CEO says.

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  • Camilla Jenkey, the co-founder of the new diversity network of Danish CFA Society and Chief Communication Consultant at Danske Invest.

    New club launched to address diversity shortage in Nordic fund management

    Investments still suffer from the reputation of being somewhat of a male locker room, which was probably true 10-15 years ago. But a lot has happened since then, says the co-founder of CFA Society Denmark’s new diversity network.

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  • Mikael Anveden (left) and Per Hammarlund (right) with another new AP4 appointee, Senior Legal Counsel Lina Berwick. | Foto: AP4

    New appointments at Swedish buffer fund

    AP4 has hired two experienced finance professionals who both previously worked for SEB.

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  • Foto: Nordic Capital / PR

    Nordic Capital weighs the sale of Sunrise Medical

    The Swedish investment firm is speaking with advisers about kicking off a formal process for Sunrise, people familiar with the matter tell Bloomberg. 

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  • Foto: Mark Lennihan/AP/Ritzau Scanpix

    Asset managers are moving away from US equities

    The golden years of US equities may be over – at least for the time being. Global asset managers are looking to invest in Europe and emerging markets.

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  • Timo Löyttyniemi, CEO of the State Pension Fund of Finland (VER). | Foto: PR VER.

    Finnish state pension fund looks at boosting private assets exposure

    ”Taking into account how large changes have been taking place in the world during the past three years, we have made surprisingly few adjustments within our portfolio,” says Timo Löyttyniemi, CEO of Finland’s EUR 21.3bn State Pension Fund. 

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  • Peter Sandahl will be Nordea's new Climate and Environment team from mid-March on. | Foto: Nordea PR.

    Nordea appoints lead for its new Climate and Environment team

    The new team’s task is to ensure group-wide alignment across Nordea’s financing and investment activities and carry out the group’s objective of becoming a net-zero bank.

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  • Danes' equity holdings shrank by 9% in 2022 – 27 Jan
  • SEB aims for speedy product launches to make up for huge AUM drop in 2022 – 27 Jan
  • Alternative sales grow and net flows start to stabilize at Finland's Evli – 27 Jan
  • Folketrygdfondet finds new head of equities in own ranks – 27 Jan
  • Global clean-energy investments match fossil fuel for the first time – 27 Jan
  • Here is how Norwegian fund managers performed in 2022 – 26 Jan
  • Morgan Stanley fines its bankers over messaging breaches – 26 Jan
  • Slight recovery in SEB’s AUM in fourth quarter – but outflow continues – 26 Jan
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