Upcoming events
Roundtable: Operational Excellence, August 27th at Nimb Hotel, Copenhagen
Roundtable: Private Assets, September 4th at Nimb Hotel, Copenhagen
Roundtable: Private Assets, October *, Helsinki
Roundtable: Private Assets, October *, Stockholm
Panel discussion: Energy Transition, November*, Stockholm
LATEST ARTICLES
The “Fallen Angels” anomaly – a special sub-asset class in credit investing
Fallen angels – or high yield bond issues that were formerly investment grade – have seen an extraordinary run of outperformance, through multiple credit market and sector specific cycles over the past two decades. We look at why........
Transaction Cost Analysis: Has Transparency Really Improved?
Transaction cost analysis (TCA) awareness is on the rise, with equity and bond investors increasingly recognising trading as a key area of leakage.....
Will China’s economy regain its roar in the Year of the Dragon?
As East Asia celebrates the Lunar New Year on 10 February 2024, investors in Chinese equities will be relieved to bid farewell to the disappointing Year of the Rabbit, and may wonder whether the Year of the Dragon – traditionally considered one of the luckiest in the Chinese zodiac – will live up to its reputation......
Cutting Fixed Income Exposure; Adding to Equities, Alternatives, ESG and Impact
Church of Finland Pension Fund´s, Joonas Huttunen, gives us an in-depth interview on how they are adapting allocations to new environments and the challenges they see ahead....
Iceland: a Frontier Market in the North Atlantic Navigating the Covid Crisis and Response
We interviewed from Arion bank Hjörleifur Arnar Waagfjörð, Head of Institutional Asset Management, and Haraldur Yngvi Pétursson, Senior Portfolio Manager, to hear how the economy and investment strategies have developed over 2020 and 2021.
Topdanmark’s Growing ESG Ambitions
We spoke to Portfolio Manager, Andreas Stang who is responsible for the ESG strategy, to learn about how policies are partly firm-wide while additional policies apply to certain ESG strategies.....
Using climate science to uncover investment opportunities
Many investors are overexposed to the risks stemming from climate change while being underexposed to the accompanying investment opportunities....a thematic approach may well be the best way to deal with specific sustainability issues....
European Small-Caps – Virtual Roundtable
In the latest episode of our webcast series, we discuss European small-caps and wether it´s spring time and green shoots for the asset class. NordicInvestor´s Contributing Editor, Hamlin Lovell, was joined by Oddo BHF´s Armel Coville, Wellington´s Anna Lundén and TIN Fonder´s Carl Armfeldt, in a discussion that covered many angles on the opportunity set available.....
Debt cancellation needs to be on the table
The quick dismissal by Christine Lagarde and other central bankers and economists on the prospect of debt cancellation as part of the pandemic recovery misses one very obvious fact......
Global Equities – 2021 Outlook
A preference for Asia, dubbel-digit returns in EM, false confidence and a modest bias towards growth over value.....
The other virus
Since September last year we have seen a significant turnaround in price trends of many agricultural commodities. What does this mean for inflation and is there potential for a new commodity super cycle?
Disruption and Dispersion: A Bottom‑Up Approach to an Uneven Credit Recovery
While the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global credit markets, PIMCO believes bottom-up research is key to reveal opportunities for 2021......
Will the 2020s take us back to the 1970s?
As we reach the limits of what central banks can do to foster growth, the baton passes to governments....
Time to Look Ahead to a New Year: 2022
With a tight consensus now formed on the likely shape of 2021, mulling the outlook for 2022 might be more interesting, and more productive.....
Currency Hedging for Illiquid Asset Classes and Strategies
We take an in-depth look at how asset managers can, and perhaps should, offer hedging to investors in illiquid strategies. Safe to say, it requires a bespoke approach......
Proventus Capital Partners: Active ESG for Private and Public Credit
We talk to Marjo Koivisto, Investment Associate and Head of ESG, for an in-depth discussion about how the firm integrates ESG in their private credit strategies....
Veritas’s Global Equity Allocations
Portfolio Manager, Tapio Koivu, talks to us about the firm’s well diversified equities exposure and its ESG approach, which unusually does not have an exclusion list.....
Building a Resilient Infrastructure Portfolio – Virtual Roundtable Summary
Through Zoom we were joined by Alina Osorio of Fiera Infrastructure, Snorre Kofoed-Hansen of Velliv and Mikael Falck of Kåpan for a great discussion on how they are allocating to infrastructure, where they see potential for excess returns, where they see potential bubbles and how they work to incorporate ESG into the investment process...
How should a “Green Bond” be defined?
Following our recent roundtable, we interviewed Douglas Farquhar of NN Investment Partners, who previously worked as a verifier of green bonds, to discuss different opinions around classifying green bonds.....
Alecta’s ESG Policies; Integrated into active investment management
Peter Lööw, Head of Responsible Investments, gives us an insight into the Swedish pension giants approach to ESG and how they are guided by the core belief that companies who take ESG in to account will be better investments...
Climate change and emerging markets: assessing opportunities and challenges
Wellington´s Dáire Dunne provides a framework for incorporating climate-related themes into an EM portfolio.....
Kåpan’s Infrastructure Allocations – Resilient and sustainable
We spoke to Head of Alternatives, Mikael Falck, to discuss Kåpan´s infrastructure strategy and allocations....
Q&A: Jupiter’s Naylor-Leyland on a Golden Opportunity, Shrinkflation and Political Money
Does gold and silver still have a role to play in a well-diversified portfolio?
Nordea’s External Credit Managers – Balancing Alpha and Risk Management
Anders Bertramsen, talks to us about where he sees opportunities in the credit markets, how his team selects managers and how they are kept in line once in....
Codan’s Credit Allocations – A broad spectrum of liquidity
Jon Pommergard Lind, Investment and Treasury Manager, who discusses how he balances weightings in highly liquid credit with the need for some allocations to earn additional yield from illiquidity premia.....
Mandatum: Good Risk/Reward from Selected Leveraged Loans
Head of Loan Strategy, Alexander Galotti, and Senior Portfolio Manager, Kimmo Salokoski, share their active, contrarian, opportunistic and benchmark-agnostic approach to investing in credit....
Confronting the Covid-19 crisis within the credit markets – Perceptions, insights & learnings
We were joined by Karsten Marzoll of SEB, Anand Dharan of Wellington, Jonas Thulin of Erik Penser and Martin Axell of Länsförsökringar for great discussion about the current state of the credit markets and what they expect from 2021.....
Building a Diversified Green Bonds Portfolio
We discuss ways in which investors can, and cannot, diversify a green bond portfolio, with Douglas Farquhar.....