CEO: Finnish state pension fund is ready to support growth in defense sector

”It is very important to communicate to our target companies that we do not have any limitations on investing in defense sector,” Timo Löyttyniemi, CEO of Finland’s state pension fund, tells AMWatch.

Timo Löyttyniemi, CEO of State Pension Fund of Finland (VER). | Photo: PR VER.

by REETA ILONA PAAKKINEN

Defense is a new growth sector, and institutional investors should build and grow buffers to protect them better than now from potential future and further geopolitical crises, says the CEO of Finland’s State Pension Fund (VER).

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