The head of pensions and savings at the bank, Cibyl Ekstrøm Kjerstad, says clients are more aware and want advisors that can explain the market.
A report examining investments in illegal Israeli settlements on the Palestinian West Bank reveals that Norway’s oil fund is the largest investor in 50 companies located there, and that AB Industrivarden and Nordea are also among the 10 largest.
Once again, AMWatch is handing over the mic to international asset managers with a Nordic presence during the festive season. This time our December/New Year series is being kicked off by Ulrik Holm Oxfeldt, head of Nordics at US-based firm Columbia Threadneedle.
Funds linked to environmental, social and governance principles are by definition supposed to minimize risks tied to those three factors. In 2022, the approach did little to help protect investors from the brutal slide in the financial markets.
One week after the official takeover, Head of Jyske Capital Henning Mortensen has had the chance to take a closer look at Handelsbanken’s Danish asset management business.
A UN biodiversity summit is currently taking place in Canada. As more attention is drawn to the issue, one expert says that Danish pension funds need to get started if they want to lead the way in the fight against this natural crisis.
After allegations of human rights breaches, Lærernes Pension has dropped its investment in a Canadian company which runs a mine in Tanzania. Other investors are staying on board.
First Sentier Investors has had Nordic clients for over 20 years. With more muscle, the firm now wants to increase its visibility in the region as well as the rest of Europe, Eva von Sydow tells AMWatch.
Fixed income funds were the most popular Nordnet product in November, with net subscriptions totaling NOK 117m (EUR 11.2m) of a total NOK 236m (EUR 22.6m).
A new Epsi survey found that savings clients are far less happy across the board than they were this time last year.
Advantage Investments Partners (AIP) was founded by former PKA professionals back in 2018, and has now been acquired by a German real estate manager.
The Swedish bank will close down its operations in Denmark and use Sydbank as its partner in the country instead.
After four years at the helm of Nordnet’s activities in Denmark, Anne Buchardt is passing on the torch and returning to Danske Bank, where she will set a new agenda within private banking.
One of the SPAC industry’s most well-known sponsors and a would-be serial backer have seen deals worth USD 10.6bn go up in smoke in less than an hour.
All investments made by Storebrand Asset Management will now be required to follow a new nature strategy.
Investors watch leveraged loans for the first signs that aggressive central-bank rate hikes are starting to hit companies hard. They also brace for more FTX-like blowouts in the private equity industry and expect investment grade to do well next year.
Credit has started pulling in returns similar to equities, but Swedish investors haven’t allocated much to the asset class yet, says CEO of Mandatum Asset Management Lauri Vaittinen.
After four years as editor of AMWatch, Søren Rathlou Top is leaving the media for a press coordinator role. Anne Louise Houmann is taking over the reins.
Norwegian Malling & Co Chief Analyst Haakon Ødegaard expects domestic office properties to drop in value, but is unsure how far this has already been priced in by the market.
Emerging-market central banks face a Catch-22 where plunging economic growth means they can’t keep monetary conditions tight, but elevated inflation doesn’t allow them to halt rate hikes either.
Several of the sources who participated in an article about investments made by Lærernes Pension were then contacted by the pensoin fund’s CIO, with many describing it as ”pressure.”
ESG is being tested like never before.
PFA’s real estate department is changing its strategy in expectation of more interest rate increases and recession, says the head of Nordic real estate, while three projects are being paused as ”it didn’t make sense to keep going.”
Farmland has performed well in an otherwise horrendous year for risky assets. Institutional investors generally search for uncorrelated return streams, potential green benefits and inflation hedges, and while the asset class ticks these boxes, it also comes with significant risks.
New opportunities to allocate more to riskier assets mean changes are being made at ATP. A restructuring of the central IT system has been the toughest nut to crack in the restructuring, which has been described as the most comprehensive change in the pension giant’s 60-year history.
Kundechef til ejendomsportefølje 
Uopfordret - IT 
Kunderådgiver til Kundecenter 
Senior Projekt Controller til agil portefølje 
Jurister med interesse for forvaltnings- og energiret 
Erfaren Porteføljemanager til Alternative Investeringer i PenSam 
