IPE's Nordic Region Coverage – Page 186
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NewsPFA becomes largest pension provider in Denmark as contributions rise to 23%
DENMARK – PFA Pension has overtaken Danica Pension to become Denmark's biggest pension provider, third quarter results have revealed.
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NewsDanish pension funds to 'withdraw yield guarantees' in Solvency II run-up
DENMARK – The controversial decision by a major Danish labour market pension fund to shed yield guarantees for members is bound to be followed by others in the run-up to the Solvency II compliance deadline, the managing director of leading commercial provider Skandia predicts.
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NewsSwedish roundup: AP3, BlackRock, JP Morgan, AXA, M&G, Folksam
SWEDEN – AP3, Sweden's SEK209bn (€22bn) national buffer fund, has appointed 14 new regional corporate bond managers.
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NewsPensionDanmark posts 13.8% profit for year to date
DENMARK – PensionDanmark posted a 12.6% pre-tax investment profit for the first nine months of the year and said the result has grown further since the end of the reporting period to 13.8%.
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NewsSwedish roundup: EC on pension fund tax rules, SEB Trygg Liv Gamla, PP Pension, AP7, Al Gore
SWEDEN – The European Commission has urged Sweden to change its tax rules governing pension funds, which it says are discriminatory because they favour domestic funds over foreign ones.
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NewsThird-quarter profits soar by 26% at Danica Pension
DENMARK – Danica Pension – the country's largest commercial pensions provider – saw profits increase by more than a quarter at the group level in its latest interim report, with contributions from international business more than doubling in a year.
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Sweden Home bias wanes
Pirkko Juntunen finds that competition reasons may sway domestic allocations among life and pension companies
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Norway A concentrated equity market
Norway’s stock exchange, Oslo Børs, comprises of 203 issuers, of which 36 are foreign companies. The market-cap totals almost NOK1.5trn (€186bn) and the exchange saw six new listings in 2010.
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Folketrygdfondet The quiet sibling
Pirkko Juntunen reports on Folketrygdfondet, which manages the Government Pension Fund Norway and the Government Bond Fund within tight regional constraints
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Finland Gradual decline
Reeta Paakkinen outlines the local investment trend in Finnish pension investors’ portfolios
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Special Report
The Nordic Region: Early movers and growing assets
Susanne Jacobson and Linda Stany assess the role smaller investors are playing in the responsible investment area
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: External blacklists dominate ESG
Scandinavian investors have for a long time had a sustainably orientated ethical approach. But Nina Rohrbein finds that this is not playing to the positive
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Hedge fund appetite
Charlotte Bonde Tamm presents insights into hedge fund investments among Nordic investors
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Funds seek to restore equity
Jan Willers outlines some of the key findings of a recent survey on Nordic institutional asset allocation and trends within equities
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Denmark’s planned venture capital fund
When key parties from the Danish pensions industry emerged from their meeting with the economics and business affairs minister Brian Mikkelsen back in August 2010, they declared themselves optimistic that somehow they would work together to put together DKK5bn (€670m) of funding to help small and medium-sized enterprises in their ...
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Country ReportThe Nordic Region: Denmark Home front target
Rachel Fixsen investigates the pressures that Danish pension funds are facing to align their investments in support of the domestic economy
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NewsNordic roundup: Skagen Fonder, PPM, Gjensidige, Alecta, AMF, Länsförsäkringar
EUROPE – Skagen Fonder, the largest foreign manager within the Swedish premium based state pension system PPM, is considering withdrawing its funds from the system.
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NewsProfits over first three quarters soar at Denmark's ATP
DENMARK – ATP has generated a profit of DKK17.4bn (€2.3bn) over the first nine months of this year, overshooting its target for the entire year, with all five asset classing posting positive returns.
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NewsAssets at Nordea's Life & Pensions division surge by 19%
EUROPE – Nordea's Life & Pensions division saw a significant rise in the value of assets under management in the third quarter of this year, which the Nordic and Baltic banking group attributed to asset price growth, as well as net inflows.
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NewsSwedish roundup: Skandia Liv, Handelsbanken Liv, Swedbank, AI Pensions, AP7
SWEDEN – Skandia Liv, the life and pensions insurer, returned 6.7% for the first nine months of the year as a result of its high real estate holdings, which posted returns of 8.9% for the period.
