Fredrik Öberg

Develops pharmaceutical products

DNBAM is a GARP-oriented and at times contrarian investment manager using both active and passive investment processes. They invest globally in a variety of asset classes including equity, debt, money market instruments, commodities and alternative investments. They invest across market-caps and sectors, with the bulk of their assets in Swedish large-cap equity. Research is shared with fellow asset management subsidiaries, in particular through a global program of company visits. Tactical asset allocation is based on a proprietary scenario-generating model developed jointly with academics. The firm's investment approach for fixed-income and money market instruments takes into accounts both short-term trends and long-term strategy. Index funds are geared towards maximum cost effectiveness. Actively managed portfolios are diversified, uncorrelated and favor liquid markets. The firm uses disciplined review and exit processes including stop-losses. Their equity investment process is top-down and consists in stock picking informed by market trend analysis and a macro-economic view. The firm seeks to identify turning points in the evolution of key indicators. They manage diversified and uncorrelated equity portfolios and aim to invest in companies outperforming their peers on a global level. Their alternative portfolios are invested in equity following a long/short strategy.

Functions as a College/University

SEB-PB is an active manager which follows a two-part decision-making process for tactical allocation. The firm's decision team, supported by a systematic analysis apparatus, makes allocation decisions. The underlying data analysis is the responsibility of an analysis team. The decision team can also draw on all other expertise and analysis resources in the Group on an ad hoc basis. The firm believes that short-term decisions and changes in the business environment cause imperfections that can be capitalized upon and their asset management experience provides added value through a disciplined analysis process. Their equity portfolios include Swedish, Nordic and European small-to large-cap, global, technology and health care firms. SEB-PB utilizes a systematic interest analysis model to develop a platform from which to compare their fixed-income scenario with market expectations. The guiding principle of the firm's fixed-income management is to obtain the highest possible level of regular income, so they always seek the highest possible yield on the portfolio without increasing the credit risk.