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Biodiversity is a major focus area for many pension funds. Flower fields, like the one shown here near Danish town Haslev in Denmark can create more biodiversity, wild nature and allow bees, insects and butterflies to feed. | Foto: Finn Frandsen/Ritzau Scanpix

AkademikerPension increases focus on biodiversity

With new initiatives, AkademikerPension wants to engage in a biodiversity dialog with large Danish companies.
  • Storebrand CEO proposes investor alliance based on Nordic values
  • Pension giant to increase focus on biodiversity

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CEO Peder Hasslev is unimpressed with Alecta's investment in Heimstaden Bostad. | Foto: PR / Alecta

Alecta’s CEO rejects controversial Heimstaden investment

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Stockholm-based AMF's Swedish equity investments pulled in a return of 7.2% in H1 this year. | Foto: Pexels: Nadine Wuchenauer.

AMF appoints new manager for Swedish equities

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A Swedish daily is reporting on a heated email exchange between government watchdog Finansinspektionen and Alecta. | Foto: Finansinspektionen

Swedish FSA reprimands troubled pension giant

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Tom Vile Jensen is vice president for Danish trade association Insurance & Pension Denmark. | Foto: Pr/ Forsikring & Pension

Global equities are boosting Danish pension funds

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Activist investor Christer Gardell accuses Alecta of "incompetence". | Foto: Cevian Capital

Critics lambast Alecta for secrecy and "incompetence" in major real estate investment

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  • The offices of ATP in Hillerød north of Copenhagen. | Foto: PR/ATP

    ATP on admitting billionaire investors into new venture: Our strategy remains unchanged

    The Danish state pension fund does not wish to comment on the new investors, but states that its strategy is unaffected. 

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  • AP3 is focusing on the 55 big emitters that have 70% of the carbon footprint in the fund's investment portfolio, Staffan Hansén says. | Foto: AP3 / PR

    Major Swedish pension fund focuses on engagement with most polluting portfolio companies

    The AP3 buffer fund insists that companies with big carbon footprints have ”valid and trustworthy” plans to reach net-zero emissions, its CEO tells AMWatch. 

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  • Illustration image. Left: Tromsø landmark Tromsdalen Church, commonly nicknamed Ishavskatedralen, which means "The Cathedral of the Arctic Ocean". To the right: Folketrygdfondet CEO Kjetil Houg, who recommends that a management unit in Tromsø should look at listed Nordic equities outside the benchmark indices.

    Folketrygdfondet rejects unlisted assets – favors new unit for smaller listed Nordic companies

    In a new recommendation to the Ministry of Finance, Folketrygdfondet points to setting up a new investment team in the Northern part of Norway. 

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  • Viktor Ström will join Fondtorgsnämnden on October 1st. | Foto: Fondtorgsnämnden / PR

    Swedish agency's new comms head will engage with fund managers

    Fondtorgsnämnden (FTN) hires former financial journalist to be in charge of its communications. The agency is busy with the first procurement for its fund platform.

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  • Torben Möger Pedersen has been CEO of PensionDanmark throughout the entire lifetime of the Danish pension fund.

    Departing CEO receives two years' salary in exit package from PensionDanmark

    Two years’ salary and payment during the notice period is the basis for the large sum that PensionDanmark is spending upon parting ways with the long-standing CEO.

  • Despite Alecta's huge investment, Norwegian billionaire Ivar Tollefsen is very much in charge of Heimstaden Bostad. | Foto: Lasse Åkerström/Heimstaden/PR

    Despite huge investment, Alecta has little control over troubled real estate giant

    The pension firm’s 38% stake in the debt-ridden real estate company Heimstaden may end up being costly. Head of Swedish FSA has disqualified himself from its investigation into Alecta’s investment.

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  • Norges Bank Investment Management oversees the investments of Government Pension Fund Global, which has an AUM of approximately NOK 15.27bn (EUR 1.33trn). | Foto: PR/Norges Bank/Esten Borgos

    Oil fund continues discussions on entering private equity with new note on the asset class

    The discussion note published Thursday follows NBIM’s recommendation earlier this year to the Ministry of Finance, that the oil fund should also invest in private equity.

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  • PKA is keen to explore the possibility of investing in life science companies. | Foto: Pr/ Pka

    PKA acknowledges ministerial request for pension capital: We really want to invest in life science

    The state can help mature life science companies so they are ready for pension investments, says Michael Nellemann Pedersen, CIO at Danish pension fund PKA.

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  • Magnus Tell will become Alecta's new head of equities no later than November 28th. | Foto: Peter Phillips / AP3 / PR

    AP3’s head of equities to join the fund’s departing CIO at Alecta

    Months of personnel uncertainty at Alecta may soon be resolved as the troubled pension giant has hired two new major investment figures from the AP3 buffer fund.

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  • Sweden's financial supervisory authority, Finansinspektionen, is to investigate Alecta once again. | Foto: Finansinspektionen / PR

    Swedish FSA to investigate Alecta’s Heimstaden investment

    Sweden’s largest commercial pension firm will be investigated by the country’s financial supervisory authority because of its investments in the real estate company, Heimstaden Bostad.

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  • Danish Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs Morten Bødskov (S) believes that pension funds should invest more money in biotech companies.

    Danish minister wants pension funds to play a bigger role in biotech investments

    The Danish government’s upcoming strategies for life science and entrepreneurship will strengthen pension funds’ incentives to invest in life science, says Minister for Business Morten Bødskov. 

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  • Hanna Hiidenpalo led Elo’s investment operations since the company was established in 2014 from the merger of LocalTapiola Mutual Pension Insurance and Pension Fennia. Prior to that, she was CIO for LocalTapiola Mutual Pension Insurance. | Foto: PR Elo.

    Elo's CIO announces departure after decades of service

    Finland’s EUR 29bn Elo Mutual Pension Insurance has kicked off the process of finding a new CIO after its long-term CIO announces she is leaving the company.

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  • AP3 is hoping to resume its investments in emerging markets next year, the fund's CEO, Staffan Hansén, says. | Foto: AP3 / PR

    Sweden’s AP3 fund aims to return to emerging markets next year

    When the major Swedish buffer fund resumes investing in emerging markets, it will be using external managers, as these markets are not one geographical area, AP3’s CEO tells AMWatch.

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  • Staffan Hansén has been CEO of the AP3 fund since last autumn. He admits that there is "a kind of friendly competition" between the major buffer funds. | Foto: Peter Phillips / AP3 / PR

    AP3 fund’s high AUM means that “we are doing a good job”, CEO says

    The four major buffer funds in the Swedish pension system all do things “slightly differently”, the CEO of the biggest fund, AP3, tells AMWatch in an interview following its half-year report.

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  • Alecta's recently appointed CEO, Peder Hasslev, has to deal with a difficult issue in the form of the pension firm's huge investment in the troubled real estate giant, Heimstaden Bostad. | Foto: PR / Alecta

    Alecta investigates own investment in troubled real estate giant

    Following its failed investments in three US niche banks, Alecta is now also troubled by its single biggest investment. 

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  • NBIM’s representative office in Shanghai opened in November 2007. | Foto: Pexels: Ayala.

    Oil fund closes its office in Shanghai

    The decision to close its Shanghai office is ”only an adjustment” of NBIM’s operating business model, the gigantic sovereign fund explains.

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  • Danish Pensam is one of the ten pension funds that have or have recently had money in an Indian conglomerate accused of improper trading. | Foto: PR/ Pensam Bank

    Danish pension funds have invested millions in company accused of malpractice

    An Indian conglomerate is accused of corruption and price manipulation. A number of Danish pension funds have invested in the company. 

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  • Erik Callert is chief investment officer of Sweden's AP2 buffer fund. | Foto: AP2 / PR

    CIO: Short-term adjustments can add value for long-term investors

    A long-term investment horizon enables state pension funds like Sweden’s AP2 to “do something that other investors cannot do,” the fund’s CIO tells AMWatch in an H1-interview.

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  • Kasper A. Lorenzen, Chief Investment Officer at PFA. | Foto: Pr / Pfa

    PFA to merge several investment departments

    Denmark’s largest commercial pension provider, PFA, is in the process of streamlining both strategy and organization. A head of alternatives has been appointed.

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  • Foto: Jens Dresling/Ritzau Scanpix

    Alien species threaten food supply, public health and cost USD 423bn

    Non-native species ­ displaced either by global trade and travel or by climate change ­ pose “a severe global threat” to local biodiversity, food security as well as public health, new report finds.

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  • Goldman raises USD 14bn for private equity secondaries fund –
  • AkademikerPension increases focus on biodiversity –
  • Alecta’s CEO rejects controversial Heimstaden investment –
  • Only one Nordic fund market increased its AUM in August –
  • Operational landscape increases popularity of private credit, Finnish manager says –
  • AMF appoints new manager for Swedish equities –
  • Swedish FSA reprimands troubled pension giant –
  • Global equities are boosting Danish pension funds –
  • Critics lambast Alecta for secrecy and "incompetence" in major real estate investment –
  • EM manager bets on polluting giant for his sustainable fund: "It sticks out like a sore thumb" –
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