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1 month ago | 
nordic-am.com | Hamlin Lovell |Nordic Investor |Jonas Wäingelin
By Hamlin Lovell, NordicInvestor Skagen’s conceptual framework for ESG has not changed since the manager started running active value equities in 1993. Cosmetic “sustainable” labels“We use ESG principles to make good decisions. We do not split companies into binary buckets of sustainable and non-sustainable,” says Sondre Myge, Head of ESG at Skagen.
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1 month ago | 
nordic-am.com | Hamlin Lovell |Nordic Investor |Jonas Wäingelin
By Hamlin Lovell, NordicInvestor Since 2021, Tredje AP-fonden’s (AP3) board, has defined a new sustainable investment policy prioritizing four areas: planet (climate and biodiversity), human rightsand corporate governance. The framework includes “double materiality” risks for its SEK 534,3 billion (USD 48 billion) of assets (per June 30 2024). “This structures and clarifies our focus on the biggest risks and how we influence society.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
nordic-am.com | Hamlin Lovell |Nordic Investor |Jonas Wäingelin
By Hamlin Lovell, NordicInvestor This article forms part of our upcoming report on Private Assets in the NordicsNordicInvestor interviewed Tero Pesonen, Director of Private Equity and Private Credit, to hear more about the firm’s focus areas in private equity and private credit, where it is finishing fundraising for its private credit fund of funds and recently held first closing for Private Equity fund of funds.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
nordic-am.com | Jonas Wäingelin |Aramide Ogunlana
By Aramide Ogunlana, Investment Specialist Director, Private Credit at M&G InvestmentsInvestors’ appetite for private credit shows no signs of abating, with estimates suggesting it will double in value over the next five years. M&G Investments argues that the attractions of the asset class remain as strong as ever: potential inflation protection, diversification, potentially attractive risk-adjusted returns, and volatility reduction. But within the asset class, choices need to be made.
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May 30, 2024 | 
nordic-am.com | Jonas Wäingelin
By Van Lanschot Kempen Investment ManagementLooking at our personal lives, it is not hard to see that the integration of digital technologies into human life is fundamentally transforming how we communicate, travel, work, learn, and conduct business. Core to the ongoing and accelerating digitalisation are semiconductors, which are designed to compute, store and transmit large quantities of data.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
nordic-am.com | Hamlin Lovell |Nordic Investor |Jonas Wäingelin
By Hamlin Lovell, NordicInvestorHow can investors combine exposure to cutting edge venture capital investing, with daily liquidity? A new hybrid vehicle, combining a fund of funds with direct investments into private companies, could be a solution. Peter Dahlgren, a seasoned banking and insurance leader in the Nordics, has developed a real passion for technology ventures, investing his own family office capital, alongside 50 other high net worth individuals – with spectacular success.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
nordic-am.com | Jonas Wäingelin
By James King, Head of Structured Credit, and Jo Tomkins, Investment Specialist – Structured Credit at M&G InvestmentsThe structural need for European banks to deleverage, particularly with new capital rules under Basel IV coming into effect from 2025 (dubbed as the Basel “Endgame”), is incentivising banks to engage in ‘risk-sharing’ regulatory capital solutions like Significant Risk Transfer and other asset solutions such as Specialty Finance trades.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
nordic-am.com | Roel Houwer |Jonas Wäingelin
By Roel Houwer, Senior Product Manager at VanEck Europe When Donald Trump made his incendiary remark in February that the United States would not defend NATO allies that did not meet spending targets, he sent a shudder through the alliance. For the first time since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was set up in 1949 by the US, Canada and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union, the support of its biggest military power appeared conditional.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
nordic-am.com | Adam Singleton |Jonas Wäingelin
By Adam Singleton, CFA, CIO of External Alpha at Man SolutionsMarkets believe central banks have solved the inflation problem without causing a recession. Not so fast! The re-emergence of inflation could again be one of the biggest risks to markets in 2024. It’s always easy to find things that can go wrong for risk assets, but it’s seldom easy to find this many.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
nordic-am.com | Hamlin Lovell |Nordic Investor |Jonas Wäingelin
By Hamlin Lovell, NordicInvestorFallen 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.
