IPE's Nordic Region Coverage – Page 185
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NewsDenmark's Nordea Life & Pensions reports record Q4 sales
Profits at one of the country's main commercial pensions providers increase by more than third.
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NewsDanish pension administrator Unipension returns 15% in 2010
Property write-downs make sizeable dent in returns for one of company's three pension funds.
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NewsSwedish roundup: PP Pension, Storebrand, PIMCO, Folksam, Swedish Pensions Agency
Buffer capital for PP Pension, the media pension fund, jumps from 105.7% to 111.2%.
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NewsFinland's Keva returns 12.3%, starts new administration role
€28.8bn fund takes on pension administration for people covered by state scheme.
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NewsValtion Eläkerahasto posts strong returns on back of stocks
Finnish state pension fund sees Nordic equity portfolio grow by more than 30%.
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NewsSwedish roundup: SPK, Alecta, Collectum
SPK, the pension fund for the Swedish savings institutions, returned 8.5% for 2010.
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NewsDenmark's Lærernes awards State Street $271m bond mandate
EUROPE – State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has been awarded a $271m (€201m) US bond portfolio by Denmark's Lærernes Pension.
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NewsFinland's Varma, Tapiola Pension reject euro-zone bonds
Finland's largest pension fund shunned troubled euro-zone bonds in a strategy that returned 11%.
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NewsSkandia's Danish pension operations, PKA boosted by equities
DENMARK – High equity allocations boosted the investment return at Skandia's Danish pensions operations last year, taking asset values back to their pre-financial crisis levels.
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NewsDanish commercial provider AP Pension reports 10% return
DENMARK – Investments at commercial pension provider AP Pension made an overall return of around 10% in 2010, the company said.
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NewsDanica pension product posts 20.8% return for 2010
DENMARK – Danica Pension, one of the largest commercial pension providers in Europe, said 2010 full-year returns on its unit-link products were between 6.1% and 20.8%, depending on the risk profile.
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Swedish roundup: SRI, Storebrand, Collectum, Prognosia, AP7, Pensionsmyndigheten
SWEDEN – The majority of Swedes believe in sustainable pension investments, according to a study by SPP, the pension and insurance provider owned by Storebrand.
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NewsHigh risk investment options yield 25% returns for Danish FSP
DENMARK – Finanssektorens Pensionskasse (FSP), the DKK21bn (€2.8bn) Danish labour-pension fund for the financial industry, reported 2010 investment returns of up to 25.7% for its market-link pension products.
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NewsDenmark's Industriens posts 19% pre-tax return for 2010, lowers account dividend
DENMARK – Danish labour-market fund Industriens Pension has set its 2011 pre-tax account dividend lower than last year at 5.25%, on the back of a 2010 investment return of 12%.
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NewsDanish schemes maintain account dividends after 'good' year
DENMARK – Denmark's biggest commercial pension providers are holding their account dividends at this year's level, citing good investment results for 2010 as well as the level of reserves.
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NewsDenmark's Industriens reduces expected pensions due to longevity
DENMARK – A major Danish pension fund is reducing expected pension income for members, as it and other funds react to the regulator’s demand for longevity-related adjustments.
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NewsATP draws DKK23bn from reserves to fund longevity
DENMARK – Denmark's ATP is setting aside an additional DKK23bn (€3bn) for future pensions payments after adopting new longevity measures, which takes into account projected future increases in life expectancy.
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NewsDanish administrator PKA vows to maintain yield guarantees
DENMARK – Danish pensions administrator PKA has become the latest firm in the country to state explicitly that it will not renege on yield guarantees made to its members.
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NewsSwedish roundup: AP7, AP6, KVD Kvarndammen, Peter Norman, Handelsbanken
SWEDEN – Richard Gröttheim is taking over as chief executive at AP7 following the departure of Peter Norman, who joined the government as financial markets minister.
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NewsSwedish roundup: Folksam, Svenska Lärarfonder, Skandia, Finansinspektionen, KP Pension, Handelsbanke
SWEDEN – Pension and insurance provider Folksam is to buy the insurance portfolio of Svenska Lärarfonder, the Swedish teachers’ fund manager, from rival pension and insurance company Skandia.
