Author name: Christian Jessen

Great news: Johan Elmquist has joined IMD is a new partner, based in Sweden. Johan Elmquist holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business from the University of Stockholm. He has previously worked at Alfred Berg, Tundra Fonder (co-founder), T. Rowe Price, Brock Milton Capital, Swedbank Robur, Didner & Gerge, Ruth AM, KPMG and HQ Bank. At […]

Save the date. IMD will host two exclusive investor seminars for professional investors in April. The presentations will feature leading asset managers within Private Equity, Convertible Bonds, Infrastructure, Real Estate, and more to follow. Stay tuned! Stockholm: April 24th, IVA Konferenscenter, Grev Turegatan 16, 8:00 – 12:00Copenhagen: April 25th, IDA Conference, Kalvebod Brygge 31, 8:00

Across the U.S., kids are sitting in freezing, molding, and all too often dangerous classrooms. Over 50 years old, primary schools for underprivileged families are falling apart. Worse: It provides the kids with poorer life skills. There are so many of these schools and education institutions; USD 568bn needed for renovation and modernization to solve

The risk of global investor flight in and out of frontier- and early emerging markets used to one of the biggest worries for developed market investors considering adding these markets to improve diversification and gain a better expected risk-return combination. However, as seasoned frontier markets investors like Mattias Martinsson from Tundra Fonder has been saying

Trump is back—but the sustainability agenda is alive and strong! Investors are busy analyzing the impacts of the new political agenda. According to a Calamos Investments team in Chicago, the green changes are here to stay, powered by strong factors, despite some headwinds. Quotes: * Imported solar panels, EV batteries, and critical minerals wouldn’t be

Christian Jessen from IMD had the great pleasure in December of participating as a panelist in a webinar arranged by the US-based GAMMA—Global Asset Management Marketing Association! The title of the webinar is “The 12 Core Elements of Business Development”. The moderator Sandra Powers Murphy recently published a second edition of her successful book “The

Onshore wind, industrial water treatment, solar, battery storage, port terminals, and data centers. These infrastructure assets can offer investors attractive risk returns, with an operational risk that can be sensibly managed. There are extra yields available for smaller specialized infrastructure funds that don’t need to deploy EUR 250m for each project to invest billions burning

Investment Management Distribution, is a member of the US-based organisation Gamma, formerly known as the Third Party Marketers Association (“3PM”). In this network, third-party distributors in share knowledge and best practice within sales, marketing and public relations. It also improve our ability to find the best solutions for both institutional investors and asset managers. Third-Party Marketers Association began in 1999

The famous blindfolded monkeys throwing darts at a newspaper’s stock pages are back in town! Now they sell stocks much better than the pros, according to a study. Even for the pros, selling a stock with a less stellar holding period return can be associated with a sense of regret, an unwelcome feeling of giving

As any professional buyer of services from asset managers will know, one of the biggest challenges happens when success comes and a tsunami of money pours in. This is how that scenario plays out, and how you can avoid it as an investor. Imagine you are the CEO and co-owner of an asset manager somewhere