Nordic region: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis

Latest news and analysis of pensions, asset management, regulation and trends in the Nordic Region from our award-winning journalists.

Helsinki, Finland

​Keva to boost equities as board ramps up risk to target higher returns

2023-09-21T14:30:00+01:00

Finland’s biggest pension fund argues long-term deficit risk is the institution’s key risk

Peder Hasslev at Alecta

Alecta should never had made Heimstaden Bostad investment, says CEO

2023-09-21T13:54:00+01:00

Swedish occupational pension fund in talks with Norwegian billionaire Ivar Tollefsen and Heimstaden to renegotiate terms of investment

Debt-For-Nature Swaps - Everything Old Is Blue Again

​NBIM weighs best use of new TNFD framework in ownership, portfolio work

2023-09-20T13:57:00+01:00

UK call for government to make TNFD compulsory; UKSIF says ISSB should introduce disclosure standards for biodiversity, drawing on taskforce’s framework

Pensions in the Nordic Region

Country report – Pensions in Nordic Region (June 2023)

June 2023 (Magazine)

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.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Country Report – Pensions in the Nordic Region (December 2022)

December 2022 (Magazine)

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.