Pareto Asset Management is an independent fund manager, established in 1995. The company is part of the Pareto group, headquartered in Oslo, with branches in Stockholm and Frankfurt.
At the core of every Pareto bond strategy is a bespoke credit assessment process: With long standing proprietary credit evaluation models, combined with dedicated local expertise and access to the issuers. The approach provides a Nordic/Global corporate credit exposure with low geopolitical risk and a sound ESG profile.
We’ve stated, time and again, that responsible investment is not about being altruistic. We believe that it will also pay off. However, research is piling up that seems to indicate otherwise.
Are we sacrificing returns after all? And if so, why do we keep at it? Learn why in our latest report on responsible investing, no. 1-2023.
Being a Nordic Swan Ecolabelled fixed income fund, Pareto ESG Global Corporate Bond represents a sustainability-labelled alternative for savers and professional investors.
One of our obligations as a Swan-labelled fund is to publish an annual report on the sustainability performance of the fund.
Read about our work in our latest Sustainability report 2022.
The past year turned out to be unusually eventful, with outright war, sharply rising interest rates and towering warnings of an imminent recession. It also turned a lot of accepted wisdom on its head.
The defining event of 2022, by far, was the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The financial world lost no time in condemning it as a horrifying act of aggression but, in retrospect, took far longer to realize the financial consequences. One week after the invasion, the S&P 500 was up almost 4%. At the end of the year, it was an altogether different story.