Skagen Funds

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Skagen AS
Company type Private
Industry Financial services
Founded1993;32 years ago (1993)
Headquarters
Stavanger
,
Norway
Area served
Scandinavia, UK, The Netherlands, Germany
Services Mutual funds
Owner Storebrand
Website www.skagenfunds.com

Skagen Funds is a Scandinavian mutual fund company founded in 1993 in Stavanger, Norway, which offers actively managed equity funds. In 2017, Skagen became part of Storebrand Asset Management but the company remains an independent fund management business with its own Board of Directors.

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History

Skagen Funds was launched in December 1993 by Kristoffer Stensrud, Tor Dagfinn Veen and Åge K. Westbø. The name Skagen came from the name of the street where the company is used to be headquartered. Starting in 1997, the company expanded to market its funds to Sweden and Denmark before establishing local offices in subsequent years. SKAGEN Funds was approved to operate in Luxembourg in 2005, in the Netherlands and Finland in 2006, in Iceland and Great Britain in 2007, in Switzerland in 2011, in Belgium in 2013, in Ireland and Germany in 2014, in France in 2016. [1]

Bloomberg reported on January 29, 2014, that Skagen's emerging market fund, SKAGEN Kon-Tiki, had assets under management of 50 billion krone ($8 billion) with an annualized return of 14 percent over the previous 10 years, the eighth-best performer among 1120 similar funds tracked by Bloomberg. [2] The company’s other funds include SKAGEN Global, SKAGEN Vekst, SKAGEN M2 and SKAGEN Focus. [1]

In October 2017, SKAGEN Funds was acquired by Storebrand. [3]

Recent History

Between 2014 and 2025, SKAGEN Funds faced a significant outflow of investor capital. According to coverage in Dagens Næringsliv published on 25 July 2025, investors redeemed approximately NOK 123 billion during this period—prompting the article to characterize the event as “Norway’s largest fund collapse in history [4] .” This decline followed a shift in ownership and management, complex sales operations, investor withdrawals, and deteriorating returns [5] . .

Operations

The company's head office is located in Stavanger and it also has Norwegian branch offices in Oslo, Trondheim, Ålesund and Bergen, as well as international offices in Denmark, England, Sweden [6] and Germany.

The firm's portfolio managers base their investment decisions on their own research, rather than corporate relationships or internal analyst teams. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "History". SKAGEN Funds. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  2. ↑ "Skagen Says Ignore Wall Street, Bet on Emerging Markets". Bloomberg.com. 29 January 2014.
  3. ↑ Cobley, Mark. "Skagen Funds sold for €211m — depending on performance". www.fnlondon.com. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  4. ↑ Winther, Petter; Tallaksen, Sara Sofie (2025-07-25). "Norgeshistoriens største fondskollaps (+)". www.dn.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2025-09-03.
  5. ↑ Lilja, Malin (2025-07-26). "Norska fondkollapsen – 123 miljarder ut: "Utmanande"". Omni Ekonomi (in Swedish). Retrieved 2025-09-03.
  6. ↑ "SKAGEN in a nutshell - SKAGEN Funds". Archived from the original on 2014-11-06. Retrieved 2014-11-06.
  7. ↑ Grene, Sophia (2010-11-14). "Norwegian team finds focus in isolation". Financial Times. ISSN   0307-1766 . Retrieved 2015-10-02.
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