How Nordic fund selection evolved over a decade

Tell Media Group introduced the Nordic Fund Selection Awards in 2010 in an effort to highlight the importance of the fund selection profession and to create a platform for benchmarking and for channelling feedback from fund companies to Nordic selectors. Coinciding with the event, a supplement is published outlining both the rankings of the teams as well as insights gathered from the top three teams in each country.

As we prepare for this year’s event (hosted in Stockholm on November 19) we did a deep dive into the supplements from the last ten years to find out how the fund selection profession has evolved over time. What we found was that Nordic fund selectors have dramatically broadened their approach. Manager selection teams in the region moved sustainability into the mainstream, grappled with fee pressures by weighing internal solutions, refined their stance on active versus passive investing and raised their expectations of asset managers and sales teams – all while blending quantitative tools with traditional qualitative due diligence.  Ten