Danish Harald Collet has made a career at Bloomberg in New York. With the help from former Danske Bank bigwig and head of Nasdaq he now ventures into a start-up and founded a fintech which is to help financial companies structure and automate financial data. There's a huge automation potential across the "buy side" and on the "sell side" in fund management, he says.
Former ATP CIO Bjarne Graven Larsen's new asset management firm Qblue Capital has major international ambitions: "Others will end up copying us."
Career Path: From struggling in school to achieving a Ph.D. in mathematics is quite a turonaround. Nevertheless, this is exactly what Miles Kumaresan did. The AI specialist is now trying to create fixed income trading platform of the future.
Nordea hands its interim chief strategist the permanent role and poaches additional team member from an AM competitor.
Two new chairmen, a new chief strategist at Nordea, a new CEO, new PM’s at PenSam, a new sales director and a new head of social responsibility. These are this week’s job moves in asset management.
Swedish Thomas Gunnarsson has worked most of his career in Denmark. Just a few months after stepping into Sparinvest as CIO, Nykredit is going to acquire the asset management firm. To Thomas Gunnarsson, the consequence of this new context is a strong focus on management and stability in addition to business as usual.
Kasper Elmgreen has spent the first months of 2019 assessing his new team at Amundi. As head of equities at Europe's biggest money manager, Elmgreen's mandate is to establish a strong alpha platform as Amundi "is punching a bit below its weight on equities" and the environment for active strategies improves.
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Danish asset manager BankInvest has hired a new sales director from competitor Sparinvest, where he successfully built up the latter's group pension product. His replacement is found internally.
Carina Silberg from Alecta started her career in ESG almost two decades ago. Back then, ESG was not a term and it was completely detached from financial analysis and business models. Silberg became part of a group of pioneers that lay the foundation to ESG as we know it today. She tells her story to AMWatch.
As Carnegie's new public figure, Jack Lindholm Mortensen expects to appear regularly in media. He will, however, continue to stay close to the bank's investments -- and even pull the trigger once in a while. AMWatch quizzes the former BlackRock and Amundi professional.
A new head of Nordic Distribution, new employees at a pension fund and in an International private banking unit, a new CIO, a new director, a promotion of a strategist and a new board member. This is this week’s job moves.
On his 60th birthday, head of unlisted investments at Industriens Pension is a happy man, partly thanks to his early bets on unlisted investments. These have contributed to the company's results enough for the particular business area to have constituted its own department since 2015.
After many years in investment research company Morningstar and a brief partnership in Dannebrog Invest, Nikolaj Holdt Mikkelsen is about to launch his own investment consultancy. Known to be a persistent critic of high investment costs, he acknowledges the need to stand by his own prices.
Bjarne Graven Larsen, former Chief Investment Officer at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and ATP, and a team of “experienced investment professionals” are founders of a new asset management company, based in Denmark.
Helsinki-based investment firm Capman hires new CIO to head its Copenhagen-based real estate team. Another staffer will follow soon, says managing partner to AMWatch's sister site EjendomsWatch.
Two new chairmen, a new CEO, a new portfolio manager on Danish equities, a new strategist are among the titles in this week's …and more about people.
The newly-appointed chief strategist at Danske Bank Wealth Management Henrik Drusebjerg has been a popular expert source in the Danish media for several years. But how did he end up in that role? He tells his story to AMWatch.
Mads Smith Hansen left his executive job at APT out of the blue – at least it appeared so. He explains why he suddenly left, not knowing what the future would hold.
Investment bank Carnegie has now found a replacement for Henrik Drusebjerg who will join Danske Wealth Management. Three chief strategists based in Denmark were part of the same strategy team years ago.
Swedish fund company Didner & Gerge is reshuffling the management team of its largest equity fund, the actively invested Didner & Gerge Aktiefond. The fund specializes in large and medium-sized Swedish companies.
Old business models at domestic, independent asset managers are under pressure due to MiFID II and digitalization, however, at the world's largest fund manager they're looking at a bright future.
Aberdeen Standard Investment's Campbell Fleming sheds light on pressing issues in the asset management industry.
Head of Evli Wealth Management Janne Lassila will leave the company in April to start a new career on the French Riviera. His replacement is found internally.
Director at Storebrand Asset Management Spiros Alan Stathacopoulos experienced everyday life on Wall Street at a very early age which led him to a career in finance. But at the age of 30, he took a year off that changed his life. He tells AMWatch how.
BankInvest hires deputy CIO from Nordea Markets, COO resigns at Catella, Nykredit brings in former head of wealth management at Danske Bank. These are a few of the many job changes in the past week.
