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AP2 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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Sweden 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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Swedish boards are more female in 2023, AP2 reports
AP2 said 2023 marked the first time the percentage of women on boards had surpassed 36%
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AP2 helps German think tank develop portfolio tool to assess deforestation risk
In work funded by Californian philanthropists, Swedish national pensions buffer fund says publicly-accessible workflow will be tested on AP2’s listed equities
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AP2 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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AP2 to focus climate efforts on driving down company emissions
Swedish national pensions buffer fund uses own analysis to find the true derivation of portfolio emissions reductions
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Nordic roundup: AP2 custodian, Swedish funds agency, OPF 0.3% loss
Sweden’s premium pension funds agency consults on procurement documentation
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AP2’s broad portfolio mitigates effect of turbulent markets
Alternative investments, which include unlisted real estate, venture capital and sustainable infrastructure, returned a whopping 10% in ‘turbulent times’, says CEO
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AP7 beats private funds in 2023, while AP6 profits in slow market
Two Swedish national pension funds with very different mandates publish 2023 results
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Exit Interview: AP2’s CIO calls time on travel
After decades of a sometimes punishing travel schedule, Hans Fahlin, the CIO of the Swedish national pension fund AP2 for the past 11 years, has decided to do things differently.
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People moves: APG Asset Management appoints chief finance & risk officer
Broadstone, Aon, Manulife, SSP, AP2, AP7, APG
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People moves: AP2 CIO plans departure
AP2, CEM Benchmarking, Aegon, TransitionZero, ICI, Amundi, T. Rowe Price, JPSB Group
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AP1 widens tracking error to realise long-term potential
AP4 leads Sweden’s big four national pension buffer funds on 2023 returns
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Sweden’s restyled AP Funds’ ethics council completes team
Anna Warberg and Alexander Elving appointed as sustainability specialists to work under director Jenny Gustafsson
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Sweden’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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Sweden’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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AP2 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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KLP, NBIM and AP funds among first to commit to nature disclosures
TNFD is working with the EU’s sustainability-related reporting body, EFRAG, to map the relationship between different nature-related standards being developed
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People moves: AP2 analyst leaves to launch own sustainability consultancy
AP2, GAM, Schroders, Invesco, Franklin Templeton, Aviva Investors, AXA IM, Phoenix Group, Isio, EIOPA, GIB
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AP Pension appoints EOS Federated Hermes for stewardship services
Focus of stewardship will primarily be on climate and biodiversity issues