The UK asset manager has hired Jan Brännback and Janne Lähdesmäki for its European equities team. The duo recently announced their departure from Aktia and will join the Schroders' Helsinki office around New Year.
Norway's new asset manager has hired a fund manager from KLP to run an upcoming fund set to launch in early 2022.
A Paris-based manager is increasing its sales efforts across Europe, and has hired an experienced asset management sales director to lead the efforts in the Nordics.
As a result of the acquisition, Mandatum Asset Management group's real estate team will grow by 15 real estate professionals and its assets under management will increase by more than EUR 300 million.
Consultancy boosts its client executive team by hiring an institutional advisor. The next step is to strengthen in Denmark.
Nordic asset management heavyweight Javiera Ragnartz moved towards a career in academia before quitting her Ph.D. program to work in finance. The best part about her role as the head of SEB's Investment Management is working strategically, she tells AMWatch.
One of Norway's most renowned fund managers and co-founder of Skagen Fondene Kristoffer Stensrud has passed away.
CapMan creates a new role based in Stockholm and poaches head of the ESG Specialist team from consultancy ISS ESG.
Danish pension fund PFA has hired Sasja Beslik to lead its sustainability efforts. He has previously had a long tenure at Nordea, and has most recently worked for J. Safra Sarasin.
The value duo Jens Moestrup Rasmussen and Kasper Billy Jacobsen are returning to portfolio management after more than a year on the sidelines. They are now ready to launch a new fund alongside a former colleague, and have international ambitions.
The real asset specialist will be responsible for developing the fund's private market strategy.
Years of sparring with Golding Capital Partners and a Christmas of soul searching led Andreas Nilsson to drop his niche boutique in favor of a "more impactful" large player. "More and more established players were coming into the market, so we had to decide if we wanted to be a small player or join a larger player and take impact investments to the next level," he says
Media reports that Sasja Beslik has stepped down from the role created especially for him after just two years on the job. However, both the bank and Beslik himself remain tight-lipped about the departure.
Lasse Vibe has played football professionally since he was a teenager. Now, he has hung up his boots for a role helping other athletes manage their fortunes.
House of Reach hires experienced duo from Cicero Fonder and Spartacus Capital, respectively, to be based in the Stockholm headquarters.
The Finnish manager has recruited a former Danske Bank portfolio manager to head up private wealth distribution.
Swedbank Robur has hired a new sustainability analyst who joins the bank from a role at MSCI's Climate Risk Center in Zurich.
Two years after selling most of its funds in Sweden to Carneo, the Nordic asset manager is now making something of a comeback in the country’s mutual fund space - this time with a more focused product base.
Nordea Asset Management has hired a credit impact analyst for its emerging market debt team.
The Climate Investment Coalition kicks off its 2021 summit tomorrow. Coalition chair and former PKA chief executive Peter Damgaard Jensen is raring to go and keen to talk to investors wanting to increase their green ambitions. "When you read the latest IPCC report, it is clear that by 2030 or 2040, it will be too late to start this transition," he says.
USD 1trn asset manager Insight Investment recently made a Nordic business development hire. After ten years in the region, it is ramping up, as it sees "alignment between its investment solutions and the outcomes required by investors".
An Oslo-based wealth manager has hired a fund management duo who spent decades at Storebrand AM affiliate Delphi Funds. The fund managers are set to launch a new equity fund later this year.
The fund manager is bringing in two top-ranking real estate analysts to manage a new fund launching this month. Another property fund for the two recruits is planned for later this fall.
Knut Kjær, the founding CEO of the world's largest sovereign wealth fund and current private equity chair, deems that "irrational human behavior" has exacerbated environmental problems -- and goes as far as to call the global climate crisis the "biggest market failure of all time."
The name of the Danish pension giant's incoming appointee tasked with overseeing investment of DKK 6bn is now revealed.
