4th Annual Nordics Institutional Forum 2021 | Markets Group | 20 April 2021 | Hotel D'Angleterre, Kongens Nytorv 34, 1050 København, Denmark

The 4th Annual Nordics Institutional Forum is an educational initiative designed through close coordination with the region’s leading institutional investors to build peer communities that merge global best practices with local expertise. The forum is specially designed to bring together 70+ staff members, investment officers, board members, and trustees representing Nordic-based institutional investors.

The forum's agenda was developed through extensive local travel and feedback from the institutional investor community representing institutional asset owners across public and corporate pension plans, endowments, foundations, insurance portfolios and investment consultants.

Key Discussion Topics:

• Asset Allocation and Macro-economic Outlook For The Next 12 Months
The macro-environment and global economy conditions will set the context for all conversations taking place and setting the tone for a fruitful day of conversations.

• Fixed Income Realistic Expectations And Ways To Enhance Returns
This session will look at specific and general conditions for the debt markets, including addressing the best strategies to identify underlying opportunities.

• ESG Now And Then: Recent Trends In ESG Implementation
Environmental, Social, and Governmental discussions continue to evolve rapidly, the panel explores how investors are assessing ESG’s longer-term strategies within their portfolios.

• Global And Local Equities And Their Impact On Portfolios
As other asset classes provide lower returns, but less volatile conditions, the greatest challenge is to find the best and safest ideas to invest.

• Emerging Markets – Public And Private Investments Continue To Evolve
Emerging market countries remain drivers of global growth and are expected to deliver higher relative returns.

• How To Best Take Advantage Of Opportunistic Alternative Investments
As allocations from investors continue to rise into alternative investments, such as private debt, infrastructure and real estate, the session addresses the best ways to access these markets.

• Investing In A Negative Yield Environment: How Infrastructure Can Support Investors In Meeting Their Long-term Return Objectives
Investors’ challenges lay in the sheer breadth of investment opportunities now available, as well as the inherent complexities surrounding asset allocation, market timing and risk management.

• Chief Investment Officer Roundtable
Chief Investment Officers will focus on the key investment and management issues facing their funds and their responsibilities to their clients.

2021 Speakers

Christian Kjaer
Head of Liquid Markets, ATP

Christian Lindstrøm Lage
Chief Executive Officer, PFA

Kristian Hartelius
Head of Emerging Markets, AP2

Frederik Fischer Hjerl
Investment Manager, Industriens Pension

Jaap Koelewijn
Board Member, Pensioenfonds AFM

Anne Broeng
Chairman, Velliv

Luigi Leo
Member of Investment Committee, Stichting Pensioenfonds Vopak

Dag Løtveit
Chief Strategist, Gabler

Nicolai Boserup
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Policy, IFU

Tine Choi Danielsen
Chief Strategist, PFA

Charles de Lezardiere
Principal, Mercer

Birgitte Sandberg
Founder, SandbergCPH

Jakob Møller Hommel
Principal, Spektrum

Régis Lanove
Head of Alternative Fixed Income, Belfius Insurance

Gert Nielsen
Partner, Bedst Pension

Morten Nielsen
Senior Quantitative Strategy, Jyske Bank

Rob Oosterhout
Board Member and Chairman of the Investment Committee, Dutch Pensioenfonds

Snædís Ögn Flosadóttir
Managing Director, EFIA and LSBI Pension Funds

2021 Sponsors

LEAD SPONSOR:
• Lazard Asset Management

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Aberdeen Standard Investments
• Fiera Capital Corporation
• Northern Trust Asset Management
• Scientific Beta

GOLD SPONSORS:
• American Century Investments
• DWS
• La Financière de l'Echiquier (LFDE)