Nordic Fund Selection Forum 2019
On May 10, Tell Media Group gathered some 30 fund selectors and institutional investors to the 12th annual Nordic Fund Selection Forum, hosted at Operaterassen in Stockholm.
The full day event was kicked off by Kathryn Saklatvala, director of investment content and thought leadership at Bfinance, who talked about key trends in manager selection. Delegates also had the opportunity to gain insights into a range of asset classes in roundtable discussions with four different fund managers.
Rosanna Burcheri from Artemis Investment Management talked about opportunities in global equities and Gokce Bulut from BMO Global Asset Management focused on how to engage with impact in emerging markets. Furthermore, James Tomlins from M&G Investments talked about how to incorporate ESG into a high yield strategy and Matthew Angelucci from PGIM Fixed Income highlighted opportunities within fixed income.
After networking and lunch, where investors had the opportunity to network with our exhibition sponsors (Aegon, Aviva, Franklin Templeton and Pimco), Anna Maria Fibla Møller, ESG Manager at Denmark’s MP Pension, shared some lessons from their project of conducting ESG ratings on external managers.
Märtha Rehnberg, a co-founder and partner of Copenhagen-based DareDisrupt, closed the day with a talk about technological intuition as the must-have skill of the digital era.
Of course, the official program was only part of the Nordic Fund Selection Forum experience as it was just as much about face-to-face meetings, connecting with new people and sharing ideas with industry peers.
