Peter Schols

Handelsbanken Fonder AB (HBF) is the wholly-owned fund management subsidiary of Handelsbankens Fondbolagsförvaltning AB, ultimately held by Svenska Handelsbanken AB (STO: SHB-A, ADR: SVNLY) in Swede. The firm is headquartered in Stockholm with offices in Luxembourg, Oslo and Helsinki. Founded in 1959, HBF provides financial advisory and investment management services to private individuals as well as corporate and institutional clients including pension funds. They also manage a range of mutual funds as well as exchange-traded funds. The firm is a responsible investor and signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).

SEB Investment Management AB (SEB IM) is an investment management firm headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. The firm was founded in 1978 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (STO: SEB-A, ADR: SKVKY). SEB-IM offers a broad range of funds and tailored portfolios for institutional investors as well as retail and private banking clients.

State Street Global Advisors Ltd. (SSGAL) is an investment management firm headquartered in London, UK. Founded in 1990, the firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of State Street Global Advisors International Holdings Inc., ultimately held by State Street Corp. (NYSE: STT) in the US. SSGAL offers a variety of asset management solutions to pension funds, investment management companies, insurance companies, central banks, and family offices.

Nordea Investment Management AB (NIM) is the Swedish investment management subsidiary of Nordea Asset Management Holding AB, itself a subsidiary of Nordea Bank ABp (HEL: NDA-FI, ADR: NRBAY) in Finland. Founded in 1954 as Merita Nordbanken Investment Management, the firm became Nordea Investment Management AB in 2001 when the Nordea name, an abbreviation of Nordic ideas, replaced Unibank, Nordbanken, Merita and Christiania Bank in a joint renaming operation. Headquartered in Stockholm, NIM manages a range of Swedish funds including pension funds, hedge funds, Luxembourg-domiciled SICAVs and funds registered in other Nordic countries for institutional clients.

C Worldwide Asset Management Fondsmæglerselskab A/S (Sweden) (C Worldwide AM) is the investment advisory division of Carnegie Asset Management Fondsmæglerselskab A/S, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Cam Group Holding A/S in Sweden. Formerly known as Carnegie Asset Management Fondsmæglerselskab A/S (Sweden), the firm is based in Stockholm and specializes in discretionary asset management products and structured portfolios, catering to high-net worth individuals and institutional investors primarily in the Nordic countries. They utilize external distribution channels and Carnegie Private Banking to provide products to the retail market. C Worldwide AM cooperates closely with Carnegie Fond AB which manages mutual funds for the parent group. The Carnegie group also has offices in Norway, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Great Britain and the US.

Part of Max Matthiessen AB, Max Matthiessen Värdepapper AB is a Swedish Stockholm-based company founded in 1889. The company is one of the largest life and non-life insurance brokers in the Nordic region. The CEO is Henrik Nilsson.

Navigera AB (Navigera) is the Sweden-based fund management subsidiary of MM Holding AB, ultimately held by Willis Group Holdings plc (NYSE: WSH) in Great Britain. Established in 1994, the firm is headquartered in Stockholm and manages the Navigera fund range for individual and institutional investors. Navigera is a signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment and incorporates environmental, social and governance issues into their investment process.

Skandia Investment Management AB (SIM) is the wholly-owned asset management subsidiary of Livförsäkringsbolaget Skandia Ömsesidigt in Sweden. Headquartered in Stockholm, the firm was originally founded in 2001 as Aktiebolaget Grundstenen, which ceased operations in 2012. Försäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia acquired the firm in 2013 and they moved the management of the in house-managed part of the Skandia Liv life portfolio to SIM.