Karl Oscar Strøm’s new company Paleo Capital is being registered this month, but some 20 investors have already noted their preliminary interest in investing in the upcoming hedge fund. "I've been preparing for setting up a company of my own at the back of my mind for some 25 years," Strøm tells AMWatch.
With 80 percent of bonds yielding less than 2 percent, investors turn to alternatives. Overcrowding remains a small risk within alternatives but investors need to do their homework, US private market specialist Apollo Capital Management's chief economist Torsten Slok says in an interview with AMWatch.
Finnish Pertti Vanhanen goes straight to the top after leaving Aberdeen Standard. He takes over after four-year Managing Director who stayed at the firm for 20 years.
A good portfolio manager doesn't necessarily excel at trading, and fund managers often underestimate how poorly executed trading impacts performance, says Erling Skorstad, who is now looking for an executive role after leaving his role as COO at Nordea Asset Management.
Danish prosecutors who charged hedge-fund manager Sanjay Shah with running a USD 1.6 billion tax fraud say they’re looking at a “number of other suspects” in the case.
Copenhagen-based outsourced trading specialist firm Sherpa Edge has hired a former Sparinvest and Danske Markets credit trader for the role of chief trader.
Former Head of Corporates & Institutions at Danske Bank has new job at Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
Sports psychologist Anders Meland aims to make it more routinely for fund managers to talk about mistakes and weaknesses. CEO Nicolai Tangen says he himself has worked with a sports psychologist for many years and sees the benefits.
Whitecroft Capital Management, which specializes in risk sharing transactions, has established an advisory board with former profiles from Danske Bank, Nordea and Deutsche Bank. Whitecroft looks to further grow its Nordic investor base, Partner Anders Larsen tells AMWatch.
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During the crisis year of 2020, Evli's Emerging Frontier Fund's team substantially repositioned their portfolio. "Given the way the world changed in 2020, I don't understand how any active manager could have not materially repositioned their portfolio. In a pandemic like this, you've got to be able to react quickly and that’s what we did," fund manager Burton Flynn says.
ATP's new CIO, Mikkel Svenstrup, is satisfied with the outcome of 2020. In the new year, Denmark's state-owned labor market pension fund will keep tightening its ESG focus. Increased investments in green bonds and local companies are also on the agenda for 2021.
S-Bank's investment arm FIM Asset Management has filled its newly-created role as Chief Operating Officer with long-term Danske Bank employee.
The Swedish asset manager wants to reach more European clients with its global equity fund that recently got its five year track record.
Swiss asset manager's former regional manager and long-term client executive at Nordea resurfaces real estate investor, family office boosts investment team after launching asset management subsidiary and PKA hires ESG Manager.
BLS Capital has a new CEO. This time around, it's someone other than the two founders and owners.
Sanjay Shah, a hedge-fund founder charged by Danish prosecutors in a USD 1.6 billion tax-fraud probe, won’t fight extradition from his home in Dubai.
Several major asset managers saw their ETF sales representatives in the Nordic region switch seats in 2020.
Now former partner at Pareto Securities Karl Oscar Strøm is launching his own business shortly called Paleo Capital.
P+ names new Chief Risk Officer who has worked for Danske Bank and Nordea for many years – and also holds a PhD in Physics.
Mattias Häggblom, who joined Swedbank Robur in 2016, will be taking up an analyst role at Handelsbanken in March.
With a past career in the UN and the Norwegian government, moving into the asset management industry was a great change for Emine Isciel, Head of Climate & Environment at Storebrand Asset Management. Nevertheless, accepting a role at the Norwegian asset manager was not a coincidence but a very conscious choice.
Cubera Private Equity expands its team with long-term Nordea manager.
Jesper Kirstein has no plans of retiring after selling off investment management firm Spektrum, which he founded three years ago. Instead, he wants to move his Copenhagen-based consulting company Kirstein in the direction of a more traditional consulting role, he tells AMWatch.
Sheila Patel, the chair of Goldman Sachs' asset management division and one the investment bank's most veteran female profiles, is stepping down from the group after serving for almost 20 years.
AP2 CEO Eva Halvarsson, dedicated to sustainable investment development, has entered her second term as a PRI board member. Beyond the international PRI seat, Halvarsson is also a very active board member in Sweden. She tells AMWatch about her early board career, sending three pieces of advice to aspiring board members.
