ESG Case Study

Eric Pedersen is the Head of Responsible Investments at Nordea Asset Management. He serves on the Danish Corporate Governance Committee, and was a member of the Finance Denmark Forum for Sustainable Finance.

Eric holds an M.A. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen. Having completed his Master’s thesis on Economic Reform in India, he began his professional career at the United Nations, being employed as a junior economist by UNDP in Mali, West Africa. After joining Unibank of Denmark (the Danish predecessor bank of Nordea) in 1996, he has worked in various roles in the Asset Management area, including Head of Product Development, Head of Strategy for the Asset Management and Life business, and Branch Manager of Nordea Bank S.A., Singapore Branch. His latest previous position was as Deputy CEO of Nordea Funds, where he was involved in driving Nordea Bank’s early introduction to ESG quesions into the customer due diligence and sustainability assessment process.

Frédéric Hoogveld, is Head of Product Development & Specialists at Amundi. He joined Amundi in 2011 as an Investment Specialist on European equities. In 2014 he joined Amundi’s Index and Smart Beta team, where he focuses on Smart Beta and Low Carbon solutions.

Prior to that, Frédéric worked as an equity quant analyst for a number of asset managers, designing long-only and long-short factor investment strategies. He started his career as a consultant for Factset Research Systems.

Frederic holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Nantes as well as a Master’s degree in Corporate Finance from La Sorbonne University and a MBA from INSEAD. Frederic is both a CFA and a CAIA charterholder.

As Managing Director, Nico Langedijk is part of the index business sales team of Qontigo, which includes STOXX and DAX indices, with regional focus on Switzerland, Scandinavia and The Netherlands.

Prior to joining STOXX Ltd., he spent almost 10 years working at investment banks like Barclays Capital and Goldman Sachs. Most recently Nico worked at the investment solutions team of the Securities Division of BNP Paribas covering Dutch pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers.

Nico Langedijk holds a Master’s degree in Econometrics, Economics and Finance from the University of Amsterdam and is a CFA Charterholder since 2005.

Terhi Halme joined APG in 2013 in the role of senior responsible investment specialist. She has been leading APG’s efforts in the SDI Asset Owner Platform and ESG integration activities in APG’s capital markets portfolios. Prior to joining APG she worked at PGGM as Advisor Responsible Investment and before that at Financiële Diensten Amsterdam as co-head of equity research. Terhi received her master’s degree in Political Sciences at the University of Umea in Sweden and completed a post-graduate course in International European Relations at the University of Amsterdam. Terhi is a native Finnish speaker.

Willem Visser is an emerging markets corporate analyst in the Fixed Income Division. His investment experience began in 2007, and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 2017, beginning in the Fixed Income Division. Prior to this, Willem was employed by NN Investment Partners as an investment analyst. Willem also was employed by Aegon Asset Management as an investment-grade and high yield credit analyst and by Antaurus Capital Management as a portfolio manager.

Willem earned an M.Sc. in investment management from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and an M.Sc. in business economics from the University of Amsterdam.