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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......
Additionality: the secret sauce or the snake oil of impact investing?
Many impact investors are keen to demonstrate or be assured that the world changed as a result of an investment made. Brunno Maradei, CFA, Global Head of Responsible Investment at Aegon AM, suggests there is a need to look beyond additionality in the pursuit of authentic impact investing
Is sustainable aviation fuel an oxymoron?
It is critical that we reduce and decarbonise aviation as soon as possible, but this is challenging as alternative technologies are not ready today. Does Sustainable aviation fuel offer a real-world way to continue flying more sustainably?
The metaverse: is it real?
Do standard definitions of the metaverse underplay its disruptive and transformative potential? By seamlessly integrating “real” life and digital worlds, it creates a new level of interconnectivity – and major new opportunities for investors.........
An opportune time for active investing in Nordic High Yield?
Increased yields on liquid high yield corporate debt are encouraging some investors to revisit the space, but they need to pay careful attention to sector and company selection and liquidity issues, says Alfred Berg´s Henrik Emil Hoyerholt and Kristoffer Sonnervik......
Evli’s private debt allocations: balancing direct lending and opportunistic strategies
Ville Toivakainen, Investment Director for Private Assets, sat down with Hamlin Lowell to talk about the firms newly launched series of fund of funds and how he is allocating to build diversified, all-weather portfolios over time.......
Decarbonizing the world: the three things asset managers must do
With a goal to generate decarbonization-related alpha, one manager seeks to find companies with the potential to be early adopters in the adjustment to a carbon-neutral reality. Thus generating the outperformance that can accrue to first movers.........
Danske Bank AM’s alternative credit allocations – evergreen structure emphasizes ESG and senior paper
We sat down with CIO, Thomas Otbo and Head of Private Credit, Michael Bech, for an in-depth look into the firms approach to building a dynamic private credit portfolio....
Elite Alfred Berg adding to high yield, emerging markets and direct lending
We caught up with CIO, Toni Iivonen, to talk about the firms broad allocations to alternative fixed income, the type of return targets they want to see and what they look for in new managers......
Climate change investing: research and collaboration continue
One manager gives their account of actual, measurable, progress being made on the ground when it comes to climate investing.....
AFA Insurance’s alternative credit program: focus on direct lending
Hamlin Lowell spoke to Head of Alternative Investments, Mikael Huldt, about the firms alternative credit program and the criteria for selecting managers......
Short-term disruptions mask longer-term opportunities
Can the disconnect between short-term and long-term forces create buying opportunities in companies set to benefit from secular trends but whose valuations have dropped amid the broad equity declines.........
Mandatum Asset Management’s alternative and private credit allocations
We catch up with Jussi Tanninen, Head of Private Debt and Real Estate, to talk about the strategy for the firms balance sheet as well as external client portfolios.....
Evolving impact investing for better potential outcomes
Showing tangible impact is a challenge for managers and asset owners alike. Wellington have developed a framework to show how they track the progress of portfolio companies and issuers, measuring impact progress and outcomes across strategies.......
Formue’s growing alternative credit allocations
Head of Hedge Funds and Private Debt, Cian Walsh, talks to us about how allocations are responding to the new market climate....
A safe haven in a time of uncertainty
Azhar Hussain, Head of Global Credit at Royal London Asset Management, argues that global high yield credit should have wider appeal, and that the front end of the market offers the best protection from the twin threats of inflation and recession......
Inflation implications for private credit underwriting
Can historical KPIs still reflect the future or do models need to be build differently in order to understand current forces at play and how they affect economic sectors in different ways.......
Nordea’s ESG Priorities: the SFDR is too broad and the Taxonomy is too narrow
Head of ESG, Eric Pedersen, provides us insight to how the investment giant implements it´s ESG philosophy across a broad range of portfolios and how looking for easy answers to difficult questions is unhelpful........
Idiosyncratic returns – consistent alpha across different style cycles
How a very specific approach to stock picking can build an equity strategy with the potential to perform across multiple market and socio-economic scenarios.....
How behavioural finance analysis can help unearth hidden sustainability potential
Alternative approaches to help identify promising investment candidates and to assess current sustainability leaders for under-appreciated risks.....
Opportunities in alternative fixed income
Alternative fixed income strategies demonstrate great variety, both in terms of spread, risk, capital charge, liquidity, duration matching and ESG factors. This excellent paper compares different categories within the alternative fixed income spectrum.......
Mapping the impact of climate change
Wellington Management shares the climate-exposure risk-analysis tool they have developed to help investment teams track and assess physical climate risks facing capital-market assets around the world...
Jentzen & Partners’ evolving ESG approach
Founding Partner, Mads Jensen, talks to us about longer term strategic asset allocation, including manager selection and developing investment policies including governance frameworks and increasingly ESG.
Yield Pickup, illiquidity, model valuations and credit risk
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.....
Are investors ripe for agriculture? – virtual roundtable summary
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.
Credit where credit is due: four common misconceptions in public and private credit markets
Heightened market volatility has led to misconceptions about credit, in Pimco´s view. They dispel four of them here......
Fondfinans’s Tailored ESG Policies; ESG and Renewables for the Short, Medium and Long Term
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......
Matching Best in Class SFDR Strategies with Investors’ Sustainability Preferences – Virtual Roundtable
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....