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Dear reader

FW Asset Management is FinansWatch’ new English newsletter focusing on companies and key people in the Nordic asset management industry. The newsletter is published every Monday and is – like all of our other newsletters – free of charge and non-binding. While we are working on developing our coverage of this field, all articles in the newsletter will also be freely available.

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Danske Asset Management: Size and solutions do matter

Danske Asset Management: Size and solutions do matter

New Danish giant within asset management wants to be the leading asset manager in Northern Europe – no more no less.

Klitgård: We are moving up from the minor to the major league

Klitgård: We are moving up from the minor to the major league

If you can present DKK 1,000 billion instead of DKK 400 billion you gain access to better deals, says Danica-boss Per Klitgård in an interview.

"A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity"

"A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity"

Profile: Atilla Olesen is going to provide tailored products to institutional clients in Danske Bank; ambitions are so high that he just had to seize the opportunity, he says.

Interest rates are going up, or are they?

Two prominent Danish economists are far from agreeing on whether the business for many years ahead will have to subsist in a challenging low interest rate environment. But they do agree on one thing.

EU calls off regulation hiatus

In spite of political intentions to avoid it, an abundance of financial regulation could be coming to Europe this year. Asset managers now have to become familiar with terms like PRIIPS, KID, and MIFID.

Chief strategist: Nordea lifts up talented youth

The career path: Bjarne Breinholt Thomsen, chief strategist at Nordea in Denmark. What has been the biggest shift in his career, who is his greatest source of inspiration, and does he think that Nordea is particularly skilled at molding new chief strategists? Read the answers here.

Close proximity to executive management is an advantage for Rasmus Lind

Close proximity to executive management is an advantage for Rasmus Lind

Job change: Pension company Industriens Pension has appointed Rasmus Lind as new Equity Portfolio Manager from Jan. 1 2017. Here he recounts why he made the leap from Gudme Raaschou.

Bankinvest tops growth ranking for 2016

Bankinvest tops growth ranking for 2016

The total value of assets in the mutual fund Bankinvest grew by DKK 13.3 billion, or just shy of 13 percent, last year. That was a record among Danish investment associations, which increased their total asset value by 6.5 percent in 2016.

Pension funds consider increasing in-house asset management

As the new CEO of P+, the administration company for pension funds JØP and DIP, Søren Kolbye Sørensen, has plenty on his plate. One of the first tasks is to examine the possibility of increasing internal investment management at the cost of external asset managers.

Nordea's head of Responsible Investments: "In principle, I don't care about ethics"

Ethics and soft issues have little interest to Sasja Beslik, head of Responsible Investments in Nordea. "Instead it is the more tangible risks, such as staff safety, that are taken into consideration when we make responsible decisions", he says.

European investment manager highlights Copenhagen as investment opportunity

European investment manager highlights Copenhagen as investment opportunity

At a time where low yields have become the status quo, a prominent investment manager points to several investment opportunities throughout Europe – including in Copenhagen.