News Archive

Update on the war in Ukraine

The war is now in its fourth week. Daily, we are encountering images of intense suffering and losses incurred by victims, some of whom have been ...

Reducing Deforestation Risk in UK Pensions: A Storebrand Asset Management Perspective

How growing concerns over deforestation can be addressed by mapping portfolio risk areas and tackling the companies responsible

Storebrand excludes Russian companies from its portfolios

Due to the escalating situation in Ukraine, Storebrand has decided today to freeze all Russian investments and divest from Russia.

Holding Statement on the Escalating Situation in Ukraine

We are deeply concerned about the escalating conflict unfolding in Ukraine. These events are leading to a great deal of human suffering in the ...

Storebrand Investment Update on Ukraine Situation

There is still great uncertainty about the situation currently unfolding in the Ukraine. Storebrand takes the escalating situation seriously and has ...

COP 26 Roundup

Fossil fuels limited, nature prioritised – and another round of target-sharpening ahead shortly.

IPE Viewpoint: Why we need deforestation-free portfolios by 2025

A third of the solution to Paris: Finance-led climate initiatives have exploded in both number and scale over the past years, and it’s great to see ...

Closet Active: Why indices aren't as passive as they seem

A recent study of US equity indices and the 'passive' funds tracking them found that a significant amount of decision-making was being entrusted to ...

TNFD: On track to tackle biodiversity loss

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) was formally launched in June. This important initiative will create a reporting ...

Storebrand featured in Hymans Robertson Discussion Paper on Climate Metrics

Storebrand has been included in Hymans Robertson's new report exploring how investors can better understand climate-related risks and opportunities.

The game has changed - the new Road to Net Zero

In the recent report by the IEA, entitled Net Zero by 2050, there are a few paragraphs and key points that are worth highlighting.

Comment on the International Energy Agency (IEA) Net Zero Pathway

This week the International Energy Agency (IEA) has released a landmark report - Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector - which, ...

Pensions Age: Net-zero transition must balance costs and opportunities post-Covid

Speaking at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) Local Authority Conference 2021, Storebrand Senior Portfolio Manager, Henrik Wold ...

Investment opportunities in renewable energy

While views on the extent and pace of decarbonisation required to reach net zero emissions by 2050 remain frustratingly divergent, most agree on the ...

Robust performance and strong growth in AUM driven by significant flows into sustainable investment solutions and successful fund raising in alternatives

STOREBRAND ASSET MANAGEMENT – FULL YEAR – The COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging and had a significant impact on our personal life and the way we ...

The physicist turned fund manager generating positive financial and environmental results

Since joining Storebrand a decade ago, Henrik Wold Nilsen has played a vital role in developing the company's highly successful ESG Plus funds. The ...

The Big Interview with Jan Erik Saugestad

In the first of our “Big Interview” series, we talk to Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of Storebrand Asset Management, about an extraordinary 2020, the ...

New Head of Sustainable Investments

Storebrand Asset Management has appointed Kamil Zabielski as Head of Sustainable Investments. Zabielski joins Storebrand from Norwegian Export ...

​Storebrand wins £400 million climate mandate from East Sussex Pension Fund

First UK pension fund client selects Storebrand Global ESG Plus strategy – Significant move for LGPS scheme to add a green revenue tilted fossil-free ...

Tackling Nature Loss: Now or Never

Storebrand has been invited to join a new taskforce tackling biodiversity risk as investors increasingly recognise environmental threats beyond ...

Investing in a better world

Storebrand Global Solutions is a fund that invests in companies which contribute to solving the world's challenges whilst delivering an average ...

Nordsip: The Road Ahead and Bright Spots for the UN SDGs

As the UN SDGs complete their fifth anniversary, we reached out to Philip Ripman, fund manager of Storebrand/SPP Global Solutions Fund, to discuss ...

Storebrand strengthens Climate Policy to accelerate green transition

Storebrand Asset Management today announces a new wide-ranging climate policy to intensify action on climate and to quicken the green transition. The ...

Bloomberg: A $91 Billion Asset Manager Dumps Exxon, Chevron on Climate

- Storebrand warns more divestments from oil could follow

​Storebrand SICAV becomes a member of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI)

"The membership shows our commitment to our international clients. It also gives us the opportunity to represent our core values of sustainability on ...

NYTimes: Investors Warn Brazil Ambassadors About Amazon Deforestation

"Storebrand Asset Management, based in Norway, collected the signatures of a total of 29 companies, which include Legal & General Investment ...

Bloomberg: Funds With $3.7 Trillion Warn Brazil of Deforestation Backlash

Deforestation and its fallout “have the potential to negatively impact long-term returns,” Jan Erik Saugestad, chief executive officer of Storebrand ...

bfinance: Investor Spotlight - Storebrand's ESG Journey from Exclusions to Solutions

“We’ve always tried to challenge the boundaries of what’s possible, tried to innovate, tried to use our initiative,” says Executive Vice President ...

Financial Times: Majority of ESG funds outperform wider market over 10 years

“ESG factors are not just ‘nice to have’ but drivers of outperformance,” said Jan Erik Saugestad, chief executive of Storebrand Asset Management. “It ...

AMWatch: Storebrand AM opens Danish branch to get bigger piece of institutional market

“With a solid presence on our home markets of Norway and Sweden, and not least, good growth in all of the Nordic countries, the next natural step in ...

Still good cash flow

After two weeks of rigorous measures to prevent the spread of contagion, sharp stock market declines, government rescue packages and interest rate ...

Stick to the strategy

Over the past week, we have experienced some of the worst stock market swings in modern times. In addition, uncertainty about how the world's stock ...

INFORMATION ON COVID-19 MEASURES IN Storebrand Asset Management

Storebrand Asset Management monitors the development of COVID-19 closely, both as part of our corporate social responsibility and our responsibility ...

Bloomberg: Top ESG Manager Is a Philosophy Graduate With Outsized Returns

Storebrand fund ranks as the best performer of Europe’s highest-graded climate funds

AMWatch: One of Sweden's best-selling funds is run by Norwegian ex-physicist: Fund manager's non-financial background could be the recipe

Henrik Wold Nilsen, a former researcher in experimental particle physics, is the man behind one of the best-selling funds in Sweden last year: an ...

Hymans Robertson: Thoughts from an Investment Manager

The complexity and uncertainty around climate science needs to be reflected and accounted for in a suitable investment solution, says Henrik Wold ...

​Two CDP Europe Awards to Storebrand Asset Management

Two of Storebrand Asset Managements funds are recognized as top climate performers at the CDP Europe Awards in Paris. Storebrand/SPP Global Solutions ...

Financial Times: Climetrics has named Storebrand AM as top climate performer in the global equity category.

"Climetrics’ methodology is aligned with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, the framework backed by outgoing Bank of England ...

Asset Servicing Times: No longer a niche

“Many believed that any restriction to the investment universe would be negative. Years of experience and several academic studies have proven the ...

Financial Times: Europeans making record investments in sustainable funds

Storebrand featured in a Financial Times news story about the rapid growth of sustainable investment funds, including the thoughts of Jan Erik ...

​Storebrand ranked as the world's most sustainable insurance company

Storebrand is today ranked as the world's most sustainable insurance company, in the Global 100 index. The index also ranks Storebrand the most ...

​Storebrand near triples the amount of fossil free investment solutions

The Storebrand Group now almost triples the amount of Assets under Management (AUM) in fossil free investment solutions, to EUR 26 billion– or a ...

The end of the road for old King Coal

Read why portfolio manager Philip Ripman means Japan has an important role put the final nail in the coffin of the coal industry and create a new ...

New edition of Solution Magazine

In this edition of Solutions, we focus is on deforestation and how access to clean water is one of the biggest challenges facing our society today.

Citywire: Three AM CEOs share tactics how to attract young ESG talent

"Even though we are a well-known and sizeable asset manager in the Nordics we are still a reasonably compact company. That means we can offer an ...

Citywire: “Norwegian ESG powerhouse on what other AMs are getting wrong”

"People spend a lot of time getting themselves worked up about what is best: exclusion or engagement as a strategy, without spending enough time on ...

Storebrand Asset Management welcomes more industrial scrutiny: "Asset managers, who don't deliver what they've promised, will eventually be found out" – AMWatch

It will eventually become much easier for stakeholders to identify which asset managers contribute to the mitigation of climate change and who do ...

Bloomberg: Norway’s Biggest Funds Tell Companies to Halt Damage of Amazon

“We have an ambition to exit companies that contribute to deforestation by 2025” should a dialog not achieve the desired changes, said Matthew Smith, ...

Investment Europe: "What will the 'Japanification of Europe' mean for investors?"

"Over time, the risk premia in all asset classes could be compressed even though the underlying risk may be increasing. This should be a key concern ...

Storebrand deforestation policy — A call to eliminate deforestation

Our new deforestation policy is a call on companies to eliminate deforestation and we encourage higher standards and collaborate with other investors ...

"Once you have understood the power of sustainable finance, there is no return"

When Portfolio Manager Helena Lindahl from SPP Funds left debt capital markets to work with sustainable investments in asset management, her way of ...

Equality is good business concludes new report

How companies perform on gender equality gives an indication of the company's future growth, profit and opportunities, concludes the report ...

Japan’s Government Must Exit Coal

Ahead of the G20 Summit in Osaka, Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of Storebrand Asset Management, discusses in The Japan Times why Japan should establish ...

The origin of ESG indices – IPE

Storebrand Portfolio Manager, Lars Qvigstad, featured in a special report from Investments & Pensions Europe (IPE) on what the proliferation of ...

Can Blue Finance Save The Oceans?

Storebrand featured in an article looking at how blue bonds and other novel financial devices may fund conservation projects that have until now been ...

Storebrand Enters the Netherlands

Storebrand is pleased to announce the launch in the Netherlands of its sustainable investment solutions with the introduction of three leading ...

Investment Europe: Storebrand pushes into Denmark with five equity funds

Storebrand Asset Management is launching itself into the Danish market with five equity funds highlighting sustainable, index and multifactor ...

Storebrand Enters the UK

– Norway’s largest private asset manager to provide sustainable investment strategies

Storebrand Global ESG Plus: Fossil-free market return

Imagine an equity fund that provides around the same return as the market and has around the same risk, but that replaces unsustainable companies ...

Børsen.dk: Philip Ripman on Global Solutions and the Sustainable Development Goals

Fund Manager Philip Ripman talking about Global Solutions, sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals – with a few interesting companies ...

Investment Europe: Investors support Baltic cleanup through new bond issue

Nordic investors have highlighted a new fixed income instrument designed to support the cleanup of the Baltic Sea, one of the most poluted parts of ...

«Solution Companies»

We look for ‘solution’ companies by identifying those with business models that promote sustainable development and provide solutions to important ...

Environmental Finance: NIB prices inaugural blue bond

Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has priced a "landmark" blue bond to help protect and rehabilitate the Baltic Sea.

An $85 Billion Asset Manager Is Planning a Total Exit From Coal

Bloomberg News reported on how we are reducing our exposure to coal investments. In line with the recommendations from the Intergovernmental Panel on ...

​Storebrand aims to strangle coal industry related investments plans

Principles for Responsible Investments (PRI) Climate Forum: Equinor and Storebrand conduct a common case study on climate risk

RWE Shares Are Risky - We Have Dropped Them

Read about our decision to exclude investment in RWE, following the German energy company’s controversial decision to expand its coal-related ...

Case study: Singapore – The Smart City

To fully integrate sustainability in urban planning, the Singaporean government has initiated Smart Nation Singapore, a blueprint to build the ...

Deforestation: Halting the race to the bottom

Investment Europe: Storebrand commits to tobacco-free investments

Åsa Wallenberg, head of Funds at Storebrand Asset Management, representing the Storebrand Group at the signing ceremony said: “For Storebrand, ...

NordSIP: On Partnerships and Water

Storebrand Asset Management published a report focused on water-related sustainability issues. In order to do so, Storebrand partnered up with and ...

Maneuvering towards a water safe future

Access to clean water is one of the biggest challenges facing our society today. Flooding, drought, stricter water management laws, increasing water ...

Investment Europe: Fossil free fund range takes 8.5% of AUM in two years

Norway’s Storebrand Group has seen the AUM share of its fossil free fund range take 8.5% of AUM in the space of two years – a rate of growth that Jan ...

New York Post: Coal power isn’t declining fast enough to meet climate goals

The head of Storebrand Asset Management, Norway’s largest private asset manager with more than $90 billion under management, Jan Erik Saugestad said ...

Fossil free fund

Storebrand, Norway’s largest private pension provider, launches a new fossil free fund as a sustainability measure to accelerate the green finance ...

Why you shouldn’t keep your ESG analysts in the basement – Citywire

Storebrand Portfolio Manager, Philip Ripman, featured in a Citywire article discussing the importance of dedicated ESG analysts who have in-depth ...