All buffer fund articles
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NewsAP2 posts 5.9% annual return after year of changes, cost-cutting
Swedish pensions buffer fund switched strategy for better return ‘using a more dynamic and efficient approach’
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NewsSweden launches new AP fund review, weighs merging AP6 and AP2
Government queries expense of running so many funds; AP7 included in the review, despite not being a buffer fund
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NewsSweden’s AP3 generates 5.5% in H1 after holding tight to strategy
Listed equities’ surge almost entirely responsible for buffer fund’s positive return for January to June
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NewsSweden’s tech-heavy AP7 trumpets 17.7% first half return
Buffer fund AP2 lags peers with 4.8% H1 gain; pensions firm Folksam reports 5.6%
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NewsAP4 wins back almost half last year’s loss by end of June
Swedish buffer fund says strong stock market performance boosted returns in first half of 2023
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NewsAP4’s 11.9% loss confirms AP3 as largest buffer fund after 2022
Last of the big-four Swedish pensions buffer funds to report 2022 figures says active management worsened result by 3.8 percentage points
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NewsSwedish buffer funds AP1, AP3 report 2022 losses of 8.6%, 5.8%
AP1’s CEO stresses importance of liquidity management; AP3 says emerging markets exposures to be analysed
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NewsAP2 boasts resilient portfolio after 6.7% 2022 investment loss
First of Sweden’s AP funds to report full-year figures says beat benchmarks by 0.3 of a point overall
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NewsAP1 knocked by 9.4% loss in H1, despite gains on forex, alternatives
Swedish buffer fund is second of big four to report first half financial results – beating the larger AP4
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NewsAP4 hit by 12.6% investment loss amid unanticipated ‘extreme scenario’
‘The spring of 2022 will have an obvious place in the history books,’ says CEO Ekvall
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NewsAP4 says equities, real assets drove 19.2% return; aims for more RA
Swedish buffer fund leads peers with SEK528bn assets under management at end 2021
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NewsSwedish buffer funds: AP3 posts 21% while PE-only AP6 returns 49%
Listed equities, alternatives and krona weakness power returns in 2021, says AP3
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NewsAP2 lays ghost of 2020 with ‘best ever’ return of 16.3% in 2021
Fund bounces back after 2020 returns were weaker than peers AP1, AP3 and AP4
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NewsSweden’s state pension surplus forecast surges on high AP Fund returns
Swedish Pensions Agency forecasts 2021 surplus as SEK1.2trn, as extra money in the system balloons
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NewsSweden’s AP2 finds replacement CIO in former IIGCC board member
State pension fund hires Erik Kleväng Callert, current CIO and sustainability manager at PRI Pensionsgaranti
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NewsAP6 handed new sustainability goals by Swedish government
CEO says the good sustainability work it’s been doing for 10 years will now be formalised
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NewsAP1 re-tenders SEK6.2bn emerging markets small-cap mandate
Swedish buffer fund seeks managers for strategy currently in the hands of William Blair, Somerset Capital Management
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NewsDutch pension funds can retain buffers in new DC system
All Dutch pension funds will be given the option to have a buffer regardless of contract type chosen
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NewsAP1 thanks its ‘constructive view of risk-taking’ for 11% return in H1
Swedish national pensions buffer fund narrowly beats AP4 with first half investment return
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NewsAP4 chief warns of markets ‘tug of war’ between growth/inflation views
First of Sweden’s biggest national pension funds to report posts 10% first half return
