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Nordic pension and life insurance funds investors have little or no interest in the field of SRI, according to the results of nrpn’s latest quarterly investment survey.
The survey, which polled 12 pension and insurance funds with ?24.6bn of assets under management, found that not one intends to gain any exposure to socially responsible investments over the next six months while only one investor said that it already has some kind of SRI allocation.
At the same time, however, investors were conversely upbeat about the returns from European and Nordic equities.
Over the next six months respondents said that they expect European stocks to pull in returns of 7.5 per cent – compared to 6.5 per cent in our last survey – with forecasts for Nordic equities set at 6.52 per cent.
The survey found that six investors plan to increase their allocation to private equity over the course of this year, four intend to increase their exposure to equities and three plan to beef up their property holdings.
Four respondents said that they will reduce their equity holdings and two plan to cut into their money market exposure. (see investor survey on page 14)
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