10 years ago, Storebrand AM launched the world's first commercial green bond fund*, building on the World Bank’s issuance of the first-ever green bond in 2008. Since then, the market for green bonds has mushroomed, with more than US $1 trillion of sustainable bonds now being issued annually.
Storebrand Asset Management (SAM) has made the strategic decision to transition all fund strategies currently registered in Norway to Swedish domicile. This significant step will commence in 2025 and underscores SAM’s commitment to strengthening its position in the Nordic financial market.
Storebrand Nordic Real Estate Fund (SNRE) has achieved another milestone with its second strategic acquisition, a high-quality logistics property located in the Viared logistics hub in Borås, Sweden. This latest investment further solidifies Storebrand's Nordic growth ambitions within the core-plus segment.
Storebrand Infrastructure Fund has expanded its sustainable infrastructure portfolio by entering into an agreement to acquire a stake in the leading French independent power producer, VALOREM, in partnership with AIP Management. This investment supports Storebrand’s broader strategy to increase its presence in sustainable infrastructure and accelerate the green transition.
While long-term focus on transition aligned investments continues to grow, a central component in the transition towards net zero, electrical grid hardware, still lacks adequate attention from Paris-aligned investors, a report from Storebrand Asset Management reveals.
On August 30th 2024, Cubera Private Equity’s latest Nordic secondaries fund - Cubera X - had its final close. The fund had a target size of EUR 700m, which was significantly exceeded. At the final close the fund was oversubscribed at the hard cap of EUR 780m of external capital, which together with the GP commitment took the total fund size to EUR 807m.
This is a joint statement from BNP Paribas Asset Management, Federated Hermes Limited, Mirova, Robeco and Storebrand Asset Management calling on ESG data providers to enhance data offerings on ocean-related risks and opportunities at project and issuer-level.
Introduction: Financial institutions are increasingly aware that alongside climate change, inequality and biodiversity loss are creating
The independent research institute Morningstar on Friday awarded Storebrand Asset Management the main award as Best Asset Manager in Denmark at the Morningstar Awards for Investing Excellence 2024.
Storebrand Asset Management strengthens its Nordic Real Estate team by hiring Alfons Rosendahl Jagut as Transaction Manager. Alfons will focus on accelerating the investment program for Storebrand’s Nordic Real Estate Fund. He will also play a key role in facilitating a seamless entry for Storebrand's growing network of international investors looking to enter the Nordic region.
"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
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.
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 inst