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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 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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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’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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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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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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Tension around future of AP buffer funds continues as report postponed
Deadline for Tord Gransbo’s investigation into consolidating the five funds extended by three months until June
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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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People moves: APG Asset Management appoints chief finance & risk officer
Broadstone, Aon, Manulife, SSP, AP2, AP7, APG
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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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Equity Market Outlook 2Q 2024
Powerful investment themes, such as AI, can capture the market’s collective imagination. Taken to an extreme, however, they can also trigger distortions across and within the markets.
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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 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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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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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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Asset Allocation Committee Outlook 2Q 2024
“The economic outlook may have improved, but large parts of the credit and equity markets are already priced for a soft landing.”