Our organisation

Nordea Asset Management is part of the Nordea Group, the largest financial services group in the Nordic region (approx. 9.5 million customers*). We are an active asset manager with a global business model offering services in Europe, the Americas and Asia. We manage asset classes across the full investment spectrum.

Our growing third-party distribution franchise services a wide range of international fund distributors, including many of the leading global wealth managers. We distribute our products through banks, asset managers, independent financial advisors, insurance companies and family offices. Our client base is equally split between Nordea Group related clients and external clients. With 235 bn EUR* in assets under management, we have been experiencing strong growth over the past decade.

Read more about Nordea Group's history here.

Our investment philosophy

Nordea Asset Management’s investment philosophy is based on delivering returns with responsibility.

 

We are an active asset manager that aims to provide alpha and outcome in diverse market conditions; at the same time, we view stability as a cornerstone of our philosophy. By employing a multi-boutique approach that combines internal strengths with external competencies, we are able to provide expertise across a wide variety of solutions. Our internal Multi Asset boutique designs specific investment solutions with the aim of delivering long-term stable returns in ever-changing market environments, while our external boutiques offer access to a broad variety of solutions.

Our success

In today’s challenging and dynamic economy, it’s more important than ever to have a stable investment partner.

Our success formula is based on active management…  

  • We see alpha strategies as the cornerstone of our multi-boutique approach, which combines the expertise of specialized internal boutiques with exclusive external competencies.
  • We also focus on developing outcome products (as opposed to benchmark-oriented solutions) to meet clients’ risk appetite and needs.

Our success

…and stable partnership

  • Our stable relationship model and large product breadth have made us a reliable and trustworthy partner.
  • We offer alpha and outcome solutions in one platform to serve clients in all market conditions. We are one platform with many specialists

Our success is the result of passion, expertise and commitment – for the long term. 

Operating platform and organisation

While our boutiques are independent in their decision and investment process, we run a common platform for trading, operations, risk management and compliance.

Within Nordea Asset Management (NAM) we have close to 869 employees, of which 1/3 are dedicated investment specialists within four investment centres in Bergen, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Stockholm. The NAM team includes more than 200 investment professionals.

A large and diversified customer base

Nordea Asset Management maintains a presence in 18 different countries.

Our local presence goes hand-in-hand with the objective of being accessible and offering the best service to clients. We work actively with more than 800 distributors and institutional customers across the globe. We are the largest Nordic retail provider, and of the world’s top 20 largest global wealth managers, we service 16 as wholesale customers.

* Source (unless otherwise stated): Nordea Abp. Nordea Investment Funds S.A. Date: 31.12.2019.