Lars Hagerud

Provides investment advice

Danske Sweden is an active, long-term manager which constructs portfolios invested in European equities, Nordic equities, Eastern European equities and European fixed-income. They focus on core investment areas and select external managers for investments in regions where they do not possess specialist expertise, seeking to identify global trends in traditional and new, fast-growing sectors. The firm's equity investment philosophy follows a bottom-up approach and is based on the belief that markets are inefficient, especially when it comes to pricing companies undergoing changes. Their investment process begins with systematic qualitative and quantitative screening designed to identify and evaluate companies experiencing or about to experience changes. They then apply their proprietary valuation model, DCF, which is based on fundamental analysis. The final step of the process is a comparison of the changes undergone by companies, their quality and their market evaluation. Danske Sweden 's fixed-income investment philosophy also aims to exploit market inefficiencies and consists of a top-down and bottom-up research process combined with quantitative and qualitative analysis.