The previous head of institutional clients in Sweden is taking a step back but will remain at the organization. Anna Jönsson, who has been at the firm for five years, is stepping into his role.
The Danish defense industry has encouraged pension funds in the country to look more positively at investments in weapons. ”We would like it to be considered ordinary societal responsibility,” says an industry leader.
The CIO of Ilmarinen expects Finland’s potential Nato membership to reduce risk premiums, and his counterpart at Veritas believes it will have a positive effect on Finland as an investment target.
Velliv is dropping its external real estate manager and is creating its own asset management department as part of a ”strategic development,” says the head of real estate at the firm.
Lærernes Pension is facing criticism for going too far in its policy on responsible investments, and for the list of excluded companies, 658 in total, to be too long.
The asset manager has poached profiles from BlackRock and Nykredit to accelerate growth across several business segments. Head of Nordics and Benelux Christoffer Hedberg believes his new team is set up for something big.
Danish pension company P+ wants more real estate investments outside of its home territory in order to spread risk. It currently has DKK 7bn (EUR 940m) invested in real estate assets outside Denmark.
The Danish pension firm has collaborated with a French asset manager to complete another international acquisition in the form of a housing project totaling 85 flats for seniors.
Danish pension provider P+, which caters to academics, has cleaned up its portfolio and parted from companies including BP and Equinor.
The Swedish pension company continues its focus on investing in unlisted businesses with innovative technology, buying 9% of the stocks in Polarium.
The Danish state pension fund reports big losses on both its investment and hedging portfolios.
Although Finland’s economic dependence on trade with Russia has been steadily declining, there are still both large and smaller companies, where a notable part of revenue or purchases come from Russia, says Carl Pettersson, CEO of EUR 28.8bn Elo Mutual Pension Insurance.
The Danish pension provider has bought into power utility NRGI’s 20-percent interest in Innargi, which has been selected to construct a large geothermal facility in the Danish city of Aarhus.
The Norwegian manager’s Swedish division has brought in an experienced sales professional from Carneo.
The Swedish insurance group will offer a Pictet fund, having removed two traditional commodity funds at the beginning of the year.
Audley Group and PFA have developed a senior residential real estate concept called Evia Living, and the first project has an unusual history.
As part of its expansion plan, Industriens Pension aims to spend DKK 3bn (EUR 400m) on Danish real estate over the next few years, says Head of Real Estate Søren Tang Kristensen.
The first three months of the year were tough for PFA, which lost DKK 27.3bn (EUR 3.6bn) on its investments during the period. Listed equities were particularly affected, and PFA’s green savings product was hit harder than its main product, PFA Plus.
The Danish pension fund has confirmed its profiled Head of Sustainability Sasja Beslik is leaving at the end of May – despite only joining the firm in September.
The pension insurer has joined forces with Nomura Asset Management and index provider Solactive to create a tailored exchange-traded fund investing in Japanese companies.
The buffer fund has SEK 15bn (EUR 1.5bn) in Chinese stocks and bonds and believes the money is better suited to making an impact in the market rather than being pulled out completely.
Asset manager’s CEO also expresses surprise at the Swedish Pensions Agency throwing out all of Catella/Celina’s funds without awaiting the result of a separate FSA inquiry.
Together with more than 500 investors and its new partners from Unified Investors, more than USD 3.5bn has been committed across Advantage Investment Partners’ platform focusing on private market funds. With several ongoing projects, the ambition level is increasing.
While returns were not poor compared to the general market development, it’s a far cry from last year’s levels. But AUM drops were fairly muted, with Folksam faring the best overall.
Both Ilmarinen and Varma recorded a negative result for the first quarter of the year. Ilmarinen’s CEO highlights that it is increasingly important to be prepared for extraordinary situations, while Varma’s CIO predicts that the rest of 2022 will not look rosy for investors.
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