Nordea recruits top profile from Danske
The director of Danske Bank's Private Wealth Management unit leaves the bank for a Nordea appointment.
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The director of Danske Bank's Private Wealth Management unit leaves the bank for a Nordea appointment.
Following a long career in banks and pension funds, Morten Kongshaug has realized a dream of founding his own investment company to develop a response to professional investors' up-scaling in alternative investments.
Nordea Head of Sustainable Finance leaves the bank.
Swedish pension fund AP6 has found its new permanent Chief Executive after Karl Swartling left in March.
The head of Skagen Fondene's Danish operations has decided to quit after 11 years at the Norwegian mutual fund provider following integration of Storebrand products. The replacement has been identified internally.
ATP announces a CEO, PFA gets a new CIO, a pension CEO and a senior analyst leave their current jobs, and a global marketing manager becomes vice president. These are some of this week’s job moves.
When Portfolio Manager Helena Lindahl from SPP Funds left debt capital markets to work with sustainable investments in asset management, her way of operating was profoundly challenged. But having connected the dots, she is convinced that sustainable is the only way to invest. AMWatch has quizzed to Lindahl about her career.
Industriens Pension has appointed a new professional to monitor the risk in the fund's investment portfolio. His predecessor left this spring following a minor organizational restructuring.
In six years, PFA's Director of real estate has increased the pension fund's exposure to real estate from EUR 2.7bn to EUR 9bn. This month, in an early celebration of his 60th birthday, he has purchased yet another spectacular property: the concert and exhibition hall Forum in Copenhagen.
The Paris-based financial group has recruited several new people for its Nordic division based in Helsinki, Stockholm and Oslo
PFA Pension has created a new position as Group Chief Investment Officer, expanding its executive management group. The new member is a former CIO at ATP.
While a boat trip around the world, surrounded only by family and dolphins, is a dream shared by many, only a select few make it reality. FinansWatch asks Michael Vitfell-Rasmussen, who has worked for years as an Equity Analyst, about his thoughts and expectations ahead of 12 months at sea.
An internal candidate has been appointed to select external managers for DNB Asset Management.
A fast-growing number of investment strategies claim to be designed to have an intentional, positive and measurable impact on society and the environment while delivering an attractive risk-adjusted financial return. But what are best practices to measure the non-financial return?
Hilde Jenssen has been promoted to Head of Fundamental Equities. The position has been vacated since Kasper Elmgreen left Nordea to join Amundi.
Social entrepreneur Eva Riedel spent 20 years in asset management before she took a giant leap and established an association to help young homeless people. She met with AMWatch to explain why.
Changes to AP Pension’s board and at executive level at AP Pension, Pensam and Ilmarinen, while Carnegie and East Capital strengthen investment teams are some of this week’s job moves in the Nordic asset management industry.
Finland is likely to keep pushing both of its candidates to succeed Mario Draghi as president of the European Central Bank -- as neither of them gives way to the other.
Ilmarinen Senior Vice President Jaakko Kiander is leaving the EUR 47.4bn mutual pension insurance company to join the Finnish Centre for Pensions (ETK)'s Director of Research, Statistics and Planning.
The hires are an important step in the ongoing development of East Capital's global strategies, says Chairman and CIO Peter Elam Håkansson.
Property manager 360 North has found a replacement for Nils Jansson, who stepped down from his position as CEO, while staying on board, when American Blackstone acquired 360 North in May. The company's new frontman has a background in law.
DNB's Head of Fund Allocation and Selection leaves the bank to join independent investment advisor Grieg Investor.
EQT, one Europe’s largest buyout funds, may be considering an IPO, CEO Christian Sinding hints in an interview with the Financial Times.
The fund provider bolsters investment team as CEO wants to make a substantial improvement to fund offering.
In just under a year, PKA CEO Peter Damgaard Jensen leaps from the busy life of a CEO to the calm days of retirement. It has been essential to quit while he still finds it exciting to go to work, he says in anticipation of more family time, skiing and fishing – and perhaps working a little on responsible investments.
