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Finland’s biggest pension fund argues long-term deficit risk is the institution’s key risk
Swedish occupational pension fund in talks with Norwegian billionaire Ivar Tollefsen and Heimstaden to renegotiate terms of investment
UK call for government to make TNFD compulsory; UKSIF says ISSB should introduce disclosure standards for biodiversity, drawing on taskforce’s framework
Reputational issues are front of mind for the board of Alecta, Sweden’s largest pension fund, as it continues to digest the fallout from its ill-starred investments in Silicon Valley Bank and two other US financial institutions that collapsed in March this year.
Nordic pension funds are getting to grips with biodiversity and natural capital in their investment portfolios, seeking to measure both the impact of companies they invest in and ways they can limit adverse effects on nature. Like other investors globally, many are just at the early stages of thinking about this - how they measure biodiversity, which metrics and approaches are gaining acceptance, and how best to report to stakeholders.
NBIM says firms need to move on from disclosures and target-setting to execution phase
Premium pension funds procurement agency, facing considerable asset manager communications task, recruits former national journalist as to help with “market dialogue”
FI now conducting two separate investigations into Swedish pensions major’s investment
Bid deadline for first tender for restyled premium pension platform now pushed back to 5 October
As Norwegian government weighs allowing SWF to add unlisted equity to portfolio mix, fund’s manager publishes analysis of private equity
London-headquartered active asset management specialist firm says new Swedish branch will enable pursuit of new partnerships
Swedish buffer fund congratulates Pablo Bernengo and Magnus Tell on new jobs at troubled occupational pensions giant
Incoming CIO Bernengo gives hiring of close colleague the nod
Swedish Fund Selection Agency pushes back deadline for inaugural premium pension procurement by 14 days after 250 queries flood in
Manager of Denmark’s Holiday Allowance Fund reveals 2022 strategy of doubling corporate bonds weighting
Advocate for equality, diversity and sustainability, former CEO of KPA Pension praised for her ‘vision and drive’
NBIM says decision to close only Chinese branch doesn’t affect its investment strategy or China assets
Magnus Billing tells IPE he’s keen to spend his time in green investment, but doesn’t think mainstream capital has all the answers
Listed equities’ surge almost entirely responsible for buffer fund’s positive return for January to June
Arne, a new regime to allow workers in strenuous jobs to retire early may be merged with a more popular scheme
Government programme sets out to find ways to stabilise the level of pension insurance contributions over the long term
The EU developed rules for climate benchmarks in 2019. After a surge in uptake, investor sentiment is already cooling
Pension funds have welcomed a relaxation in foreign investment rules but would have preferred a more liberal regime
Occupational pensions could form part of a new review following last year’s Pension Commission report
Government authority sets out first tender in its bid to ensure pension funds access to quality funds to provide safer and higher pensions