H&M Investor Heads for Exit as Selloff Tests Crisis Point

Customers hold Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) shopping bags outside a store in New York, U.S., on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017. Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) is scheduled to release earnings figures on September 28.Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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One of H&M’s largest shareholders has lost its patience.

Skandia’s actively managed funds have spent the past months selling off most of its stake in Hennes & Mauritz AB after watching the fashion retailer struggle with weakening sales in its physical stores and intensifying online competition. The Swedish savings and insurance giant says there’s a raft of issues H&M would need to address before it will consider investing again.