Storebrand Asset Management Q4 2023 business update
Strong finish to the year with positive signs across all Nordic markets.
Strong finish to the year with positive signs across all Nordic markets.
"Biodiversity loss was a breakthrough topic last year in within our sector, after what has been a long battle for many of us advocating for the issue. But now, this issue is increasingly being understood to rank alongside climate change — and to be intrinsically linked to solving it -as areas of significant systemic risk for investors"- Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO Storebrand Asset Management
Storebrand has been assessed by the renowned Dow Jones Sustainability Index as one of the world's leading listed companies in work on sustainability.
Storebrand Asset Management recognized net revenue of NOK 507 million for the third quarter of 2023. Despite financial markets declining in the quarter due to renewed concerns about interest rates, affecting AuM negatively, we nonetheless experienced inflows totalling NOK 15 billion, ending the period with NOK 1131 billion in Assets under Management (AuM), an increase of NOK 111 billion in 2023.
MILAN OCTOBER 11 - European Business and Nature Summit is the largest conference dedicated to crafting sustainable business models. This year’s edition comes one year before COP16 and will put special focus on empowering businesses to take decisive transformative action to implement biodiversity targets and lead the way towards a nature-positive society.
Nature Action 100 is a global investor engagement initiative focused on driving greater corporate ambition and action to reduce nature and biodiversity loss. Investors participating in the initiative engage companies in key sectors that are deemed to be systemically important in reversing nature and biodiversity loss by 2030
A group of 36 financial institutions, representing over EUR 3.3 trillion of combined assets, have released a new joint statement urging governments to protect the ocean and not proceed with deep-sea mining until the environmental, social and economic risks are comprehensively understood, and alternatives to deep-sea minerals have been fully explored.
Storebrand Asset Management recognized net revenue of NOK 483 million for the second quarter of 2023. Overall, results in the quarter were impacted by positively trending markets and the weakening of the NOK against most currencies. In the quarter, we experienced inflows totalling NOK 10billion, ending the period with NOK 1143 billion in Assets under Management, an increase of NOK 124 billion.
Storebrand Asset Management, AkademikerPension, APG & statement after Toyota AGM 2023 - Responding to the climate lobbying vote results We are glad to see so many investors supporting our resolution on disclosure of Toyota’s lobbying activities. The high backing should serve as a clear wake up call for the company to focus on being competitive in the transition to the net zero society instead
A group of investors comprising of Storebrand Asset Management, Man Group, Corporate Action Japan (CAJ) and the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR), has been co-engaging with Nippon Steel in recent months with a focus on enhancements to decarbonisation.
Today, three shareholders are announcing that they have filed a climate lobbying-related resolution for Toyota Motor Corporation’s Annual General Meeting (June date TBC). The filing comes after a long period of active engagement led by Danish pension fund, AkademikerPension (US$20 bn in AUM), along with Norwegian financial services company, Storebrand Asset Management (US$120 bn in AUM), and Dutch
"Our sustainability position and multi-boutique business model have been important to our growth and positive institutional inflows. In the current investment climate of persistently high interest and inflation rates, the importance of building a resilient portfolio with diversified assets is underlined." - Jan Erik Saugestad CEO Storebrand Asset Management.