The Nordic Brief
We spoke to Rens Ramaekers, portfolio manager in the European ABS and Mortgages team, at Aegon, to find out why Dutch mortgages offer a yield premium, how to quantify their liquidity and valuation risks and why the credit risk has historically been so low.....
NordicInvestor’s agriculture roundtable gathered portfolio managers and investment consultants from North America, Denmark, Sweden and the UK to explore the unique features of agricultural investing and how it is adapting to investors’ evolving ESG and sustainability priorities.
Heightened market volatility has led to misconceptions about credit, in Pimco´s view. They dispel four of them here......
Melanie Brooks talks to us about leaving NBIM for boutique manager Fondfinans in order to have more hands-on involvement in picking stocks. At NBIM her ESG team supported portfolio managers but now she has both ESG and portfolio management responsibilities......
Louise Kooy-Henckel of Wellington Management, Anders Bertramsen of Nordea Assset Management and Erik Edward of Swedbank joined us to discuss how SFDR regulations has impacted fund selection and how the nuances and complexities of ESG investing can not be oversimplified....
We spoke to Skagen’s Head of ESG, Sondre Myge Haugland, to identify how the firm applies and prioritises ESG considerations in the context of its value investing philosophy for equities and fixed income....
Agriculture can be grouped with other real assets such as forestry/timberland, real estate, infrastructure, precious metals, industrial metals, and equipment, but they all have distinguishing features. We take a look at developed market land farming for yield, growth and inflation hedging.....
The sustainable debt market is growing rapidly as issuers face increased pressure from investors and regulators to finance a more sustainable future. Here we look at how to assess the suitability of labelled issuance for portfolios and highlight how to use engagement to combat greenwashing.....
Lingyi Lu, Head of Sustainability at Söderberg and Partners, gives us an in-depth look into how the Swedish investment giant evaluates the sustainability of portfolios and funds and how investor preferences evolve....
Veritas´ new head of ESG, Eveliina Leino, talks to us about the firms pragmatic approach to ESG and how the road ahead is far from straight forward if you want to impact real change.....
