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Virtual Roundtables: Sustainable Investments, September, 2025
Virtual Roundtables: How to Create Alpha in Equity Portfolios, October, 2025
Virtual Roundtables: Alternative Credit, November, 2025
LATEST ARTICLES
Pure Play Bank Risk Sharing and Regulatory Capital
Whitecroft argue that bank risk sharing (also known as SRT) could deliver returns as good or even better than high yield or leveraged loans, but with a portfolio of mainly investment grade assets. The market is booming but deal selection is key....
Private credit: Europe vs the US
Investors’ appetite for private credit shows no signs of abating, with estimates suggesting it will double in value over the next five years. But within the asset class, choices need to be made. With Europe and the US dominating almost 90% of the market, what are the key differences between these regions and where should investors set their focus?
Small caps riding the AI wave
The rapidly spreading use of artificial intelligence is even further and more dramatically intensifying the demand for powerful semiconductor chips. But how does the increased use of artificial intelligence impact the semiconductor sector and what risks and opportunities does it provide to small-cap companies in particular?
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.....
Max Matthiessen: Majoring on High Quality and Investment Grade Credit
Q&A with Jon Arnell, Head of Investments, on the firms investment strategy for their pensions, asset management and non-life insurance products....
Emerging market debt: A path less volatile
An in-depth look into an asset class that keeps drawing the interest of investors thanks to attractive yields and its diversification potential. But while markets recovered quickly from the volatility, investors should remain cautious for the challenges ahead....
PenSam’s Growing ESG Exclusion List; More Companies and Countries Off Limits
Mikael Bek,Head of ESG, highlights some distinguishing features of PenSam’s exclusion and other ESG policies, which are part of its Responsible Investment and Active Ownership policy....
How Can ESG be Applied to Currency Investing?
Record Currency Management has already developed three ways of integrating ESG into currency investment processes, and is exploring different evolving perspectives on the topic......
Handelsbanken Asset Management: Raising ESG Standards
We interview Asset Allocation Product Analyst, Tobias Tallberg, to focus on how the firm’s evolving ESG policies apply to its selection of external managers....
PKA’s Expanding ESG Policies: Collaboration in Denmark, the Nordics, Europe and Globally
Dewi Dylander, Deputy Executive Director of ESG, and Head of Sustainable Investments, gives insight into the Danish pension funds philosophy on how a collaborative approach is key to ESG.....
Fit for the future: Unboxing ESG in real assets
Recent events have highlighted the importance of the environmental, social and governance characteristics of real asset investments – not only as part of COVID-19 recovery programmes, but also as a way of futureproofing portfolios....
Green Bonds Coming of Age – NordicInvestor Roundtable Summary
We were joined by Søren Larsen of Nykredit, Rune Riisbjerg Thomsen of PKA and Douglas Farquahar of NN Investment Partners for a candid discussion on the growing asset class of green bonds....
Pricing physical climate risk: A multidisciplinary approach
Recent events have highlighted the importance of the environmental, social and governance characteristics of real asset investments – not only as part of COVID-19 recovery programmes, but also as a way of futureproofing portfolios....
Jupiter Ecology at Maximum Optimism
Policy, technology and consumer trends are all broadening out the opportunity set.....
Quality and ESG: the keys to unlocking the European small-cap opportunity
Should European small-caps be a long-term strategic allocation for investors and can they deliver alpha throughout the economic cycle?
Mandatum’s Mid-Market Nordic Private Equity – Minority investing in growth companies
We interviewed Sampo plc Portfolio manager, Alexander Antas, to discuss the insurer’s approach to private equity investing for its proprietary capital and client capital.....
DNB Multi-Asset Team Readies Fund of Hedge Funds
NordicInvestor interviewed Anette Hjertø, Head of Absolute Return Investments at DNB Asset Management, to discuss the firm’s multi-asset and fund of hedge funds strategies.....