Osmund Mellemsaeter

Danske Norway actively manages portfolios invested in equity, debt and alternative instruments across strategies and regions with a strong emphasis on European markets. The firm focuses on core investment areas and selects external managers for investments in regions where they do not possess specialist expertise. They follow a long-term investment approach and seek to identify global trends within traditional and new fast-growing sectors. The firm's equity investment philosophy follows a bottom-up approach and is based on the belief that markets are inefficient especially when it comes to pricing companies undergoing changes. Their investment process begins with a systematic qualitative and quantitative screening process designed to identify and evaluate companies experiencing or about to experience change. They then apply their proprietary valuation model, based on fundamental analysis and compare the changes undergone by companies, their quality and their market evaluation. Danske Norway's fixed-income investment philosophy is based on the exploitation of market inefficiencies and consists of a top-down and bottom-up research process combined with quantitative and qualitative analysis.