Nordea Asset Management

Nordic Ideas

Our Nordic way of thinking and ideas underline our values. The Nordea personal-

ity helps others to see us, recognise us, approve of us and make the right choice.

Our personality is built around being innovative, open-minded, simple and fl exible.

By embracing changes and challenges while building stable client relationships

and remaining focused on our targets, we continuously strive to deliver superior

quality and to create value for our customers.

Nordea Group

Nordea is the largest financial services group in Northern Europe with a market capitalisa-tion of approximately EUR 45.3bn, total assets of EUR 682.7bn and EUR 286.1bn AuM. With approximately 10 million customers, more than 650 locations and 29,719 employees, Nordea has a market position of number one or two in most Nordic markets.

Its shares are listed in Stockholm, Helsinki and Copenhagen. As a testimony to its successful strategy, Nordea now qualifies within the top European financial institu-tions in terms of market capitalisation.

Nordea Asset Management

Nordea Asset Management has a global business model and manages asset classes across the full investment spectrum. Our client base is equally split between captive and non-captive clients. A total of close to 600 employees are employed in asset management, of which 1/3 are dedicated

One Nordea Team

investment specialists within four invest-ment centres in Bergen, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Stockholm. With close to EUR 191bn in assets under management, Nordea is naturally the leading investment manager in the Nordic Region but has also developed a large global business servicing clients across continents (Europe, Americas and Asia).

As an active investment manager, Nordea focuses on two legs within its fund range namely alpha and outcome. Alpha strate-gies are the cornerstone of our multi-bou-tique approach which combines the exper-tise of specialized internal boutiques with exclusive external competences. On the other hand, outcome products - as opposed to benchmark - oriented solutions are built on our “stability investment philosophy” to meet clients’ risk appetite and needs.

Social responsible-oriented thinking is inherent in the Nordic mentality and so it is not surprising that the Scandinavian coun-tries are global leaders in numerous related aspects. In November 2007, Nordea signed,

as one of the first major banks in the Nordic Re-gion, the United Nations Principles for Responsible

Investment (UNPRI). By signing, Nordea commits itself to incorporate environmen-tal, social and corporate governance issues into investment analyses and decision-making processes.

Source: Nordea, 30.06.2015*Source: Global Finance Magazine, 30.07.2013

The Nordea group is the safest bank in the Nordic region named by Global Finance that lists the world’s 50 saf-est banks based on an evaluation of long-term credit ratings – from Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch – and total assets of the 500 largest banks world-wide.*

One Nordea Team

A growing global presence

In order to distribute its funds cross-border, Nordea offers segregated accounts but has foremost developed a single global plat-form in Luxembourg using a single vehicle: the Nordea 1, SICAV. This umbrella, which currently consists of 69 actively managed solutions, is the preferred domiciliation for launch of new investment funds within the whole Nordea organisation.

Our products are distributed by various distribution channels, via captive distribu-tion and non-captive activities, both being evenly split in terms of assets under man-agement. As part of our non-captive activi-ties, Nordea services 16 wholesale clients out of the top 20 largest wealth managers** and works actively with more than 400 distributors and institutional clients across the globe.

So as to build long-term, stable client relationships, sales teams are located around the globe with offices being pre-sent in Cologne, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, New York, Oslo, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm, Vienna and Zürich. Our local presence goes hand in hand with our willingness to be accessible, open and humble towards the views and cultures of our clients.

** Top 20 largest wealth managers as defined by Scorpio.

To create alpha, we believe investment managers will perform better if they are autonomous and independent when it comes to their investment process.

Our approach to investing

Asset management at Nordea

To facilitate the best possible return for a given level of risk, Nordea focuses on two legs within its fund range namely alpha and outcome.

1. Alpha strategies are the cornerstone of our multi-boutique approach which combines the expertise of specialized internal boutiques with exclusive external competences.

2. Outcome products - as opposed to benchmark - oriented solutions are built on our “stability investment philoso- phy” to meet clients’ risk appetite and needs.

Our strategy is key as we strive to deliver stability to our clients who look for a sus-tainable and long-term business partner for sourcing investment solutions. It’s all about providing various products, meeting different investment environments as well as delivering strong support. Over the past years, our product range has matured and become more complex. Our multi-boutique approach has allowed us to build a product offering which provides the possibility to deliver alpha in a stable way.

Our Nordea 1, SICAV encompasses all our strategies aiming at providing alpha and outcome solutions in a single platform and serving our clients in every market condi-tion – One platform, Many Specialists.

Our multi-boutique approach to create alpha

Using alpha strategies is all about giving the fund manager freedom to invest with minimum constraints in order to maximise investor return, making it a more challeng-ing proposition. To satisfy the growing demand for alpha strategies, Nordea has established a multi-boutique approach. This means creating “boutiques”, either internally or externally, where expertise in a given area can add competitive advan-tage and ultimately generate higher returns than the peer-group.

Our concept is based on a very simple prin-ciple: “To create alpha, we believe invest-ment managers will perform better if they are autonomous and independent when it comes to their investment process”.

Providing alpha consistently is rare. Low tracking error (beta) investment manage-ment can be easily performed and rep-licated at any financial organisation. In contrast, providing alpha requires higher conviction but also stronger focus on money management: it is almost impos-sible for an asset manager to create alpha in all asset classes and all regions. Specialisa-tion is a must.

By employing a multi-boutique approach combining internal strengths with external competences, know-how and quality in investment, management becomes pos-sible across a broad product range, in part through exclusive agreements with some of the world’s leading investment manage-ment companies.

Internal boutiques

We have established segregated teams for key asset classes, allowing each team to focus on their primary activity: managing money. This means retaining competence centres that leave freedom to the invest-ment managers.

Our internal boutiques employ around 160 investment professionals who are located in our four investment centres: Bergen, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Stockholm. We naturally possess in-depth investment expertise in managing Nordic equities and credit solutions but our strengths also lie in various asset classes outside of the Nordic area. Over the years, we have built well-es-tablished track records in both equity and fixed income strategies ranging from Credit or Covered bonds to Global, European and Emerging Markets equities as well as Multi Asset solutions.

External boutiques

The sourcing of external managers lays with the Nordea External Products team which is based in the Nordic Region and consists of 20 people. Their goal is to meet investor needs by selecting best-of-breed asset managers who can generate alpha in specific regions or asset classes. The brief is to concentrate on boutiques focused purely on money management in the belief that fund distribution distracts investment managers from their primary objective: generating exceptional investment perfor-mance.

Outcome: stability as a cornerstone of our philosophy

Today, many investors realise the impor-tance of outcome – as opposed to bench-mark oriented solutions. Over the past ten years, we have put a lot of emphasis on building our “stability investment phi-losophy” to meet clients’ risk appetite and needs. Our internal Multi Asset boutique, which manages around EUR 70bn in assets under management, has designed specific investment solutions with the ambition of delivering long-term stable returns in all market environments.

As such, our Stable Return strategy was launched in 2005 with the aim of offer-ing clients a balanced strategy with a total return focus. Not being constrained by a benchmark allows the management team to focus on its primary goal: to minimise the portfolio’s absolute risk. Their objective is straightforward: to deliver stable returns with a focus on capital preservation.

The multi-boutique approach allows us to propose some of the best investment solutions to our clients by combining internal strengths with exclusive external competences to deliver alpha to our clients.

A stable partner and active manager

More than ever, stability, consistency and quality has become key in the asset man-agement business. Nordea offers, through its broad product offering, strategies that aim to provide alpha and outcome solu-tions in every market condition.

Achieving stable alpha generation through our multi-boutique approach imply that investors gain from our ability to manu-facture investment solutions by bringing together the capabilities of each boutique. We believe that the success of our multi-boutique model lies on building on the strength of a boutique investment ap-proach and combining them with the scale and stability of a larger company.

We also embrace our outcome product line whose basis, “stability investment philoso-phy”, was designed to meet clients’ risk ap-petite and needs. By attentively listening to our clients, we have developed investment solutions that put stability at the core of their strategy – a concept which has proved successful over the past decade.

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