The new team will be responsible for a portfolio of a significant size by Nordic standards, Mandatum Life states.
US headquartered Goldman Sachs has promoted 465 new Managing Directors, which is the firm's second-highest rank. The 2019 list includes a small handful of Nordic names.
A Head of Sustainability moves to fintech, two credit specialists leave Swedbank, ATP Real Estate appoints Head of Asset Management, and PFA hires a former Justice Department spin doctor. These are some of this week’s job moves.
Former Chief Investment Officer of Danish public pension fund ATP Bjarne Graven Larsen has great ambitions on behalf of his asset management company QBlue Balanced. Several well-known professionals from Danish businesses have invested in the company – including dethroned Chair of Danske Bank Ole Andersen.
Swiss UBS Wealth Management’s Danish division has at once lost several advisors. Where the employees – of which several have brought in customers from Nordea’s private banking division – have gone remains unknown.
Senior Portfolio Manager Mia Söderberg has left the selection team of Danish asset manager Nykredit in Copenhagen.
Jakob Kær Nielsen is responsible of Danica's international real estate portfolio and does not recall a specific moment that determined his career path. However, real estate has been intriguing to him since he was just a kid. He joined Danica in June from Patrizia.
Rasmus Bartholdy is switching to AP Pension after 16 years at PFA Pension, most recently as a portfolio manager. AP Pension may be smaller in size than PFA but the will to be best in class ranks top, he says.
During his 14 years in the finance industry in London, Head of Nykredit Wealth Management Peter Kjærgaard worked with Alison Rose, the first female CEO of one of the UK’s four big banks. He tells AMWatch how a specific incident with Rose completely captivated him and why she, and Kjærsgaard’s early years in the Danish national forces have played an important part in shaping his view on management skills.
Once again, pension funds have made headlines; recruiting new colleagues and making changes to the boards. This week, however, Handelsbanken has hired new people, too, and the largest stockbroker in Sweden completed an organizational restructuring.
Starting at the turn of the year, Danish pension fund Lærernes Pension has a new CEO. Karsten Kjellerup Kjeldsen's career is clearly characterized by investment and while he had not expected to become CEO this early, he looks forward to taking on his new responsibilities and manage the pension savings of 146,000 teachers.
Danish Bjørn Sibbern is responsible for all European activities of US stock exchange group Nasdaq and not least its technology center in Stockholm, which employs more than 1,000 people. He ensures life balance by working around the clock four days of the week in Stockholm and compensating with more tranquility in Copenhagen on the last three.
Prominent hedge fund founder Ray Dalio claims that low interest rates adds pressure to the capitalistic system, resulting in great economic inequality, and predicts a system change.
On Wednesday, the largest pension fund in Denmark ATP announced the name of its new CIO. Mikkel Svenstrup, 45, looks forward to entering an organization whose investments are based on ideas and principles that are in line with his own. Whether he will introduce changes to the investment strategy is too soon to tell, he says.
ATP has appointed Mikkel Svenstrup as new Chief Investment Officer. He replaces Kasper Lorenzen, who left to join PFA earlier this year.
Peter Lindegaard, who has been Head of Listed Investments, has become new CIO. Former CIO Karsten Kjellerup Kjeldsen has become Lærernes Pension's new CEO.
Lærernes Pension has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer.
The largest bank in Denmark has appointed a new Head of Private Banking for its home market.
The largest commercial pension company in Denmark PFA appointed its new Group CIO two months ago. Most recently, Kasper Lorenzen has been Chief Investment Officer at public pension fund ATP and on Monday morning he published his first quarterly statement in his new job.
Over the past few months, AMWatch has quizzed some of the world's largest investment managers on the Nordic asset management environment and despite the number of relevant themes, there is one common denominator: Customization is the name of the game for asset managers. Here's a throwback to articles with representatives from BlackRock, Robeco, Dimensional, Natixis Investment Managers, Aberdeen Standard Investments, Invesco, PIMCO, MAN Group, Nuveen, BMO GAM, and Amundi.
AP Pension has hired a Senior Portfolio Manager to take responsibility of external mandates in equities.
Nordea has lost a few old-timers and a Danish fund's alternative investment arm has poached new team member from PensionDanmark while Nykredit has found a new chief economist. These are some of this week’s job moves.
Lind Invest, which manages energy millionaire Henrik Lind's long-term investments, has dismissed a number of investment staff.
Aktia reels in Danske Bank's institutional banking head for a role as Head of Asset Management Sales.
Taaleri Wealth Management has appointed Perttu Purhonen as new Head of Taaleri Wealth Management and member of the group’s Executive Management Team.
