18/12/2019at 09:18

Sweden’s pension industry is about to get its first taste of life after negative interest rates.

Funds with a total of about EUR 565bn in assets have a lot at stake as their central bank becomes the first to exit the experimental monetary policy.

AP7 CEO Richard Grottheim looks forward to ending half a decade of negative rates | Photo: PR / AP7

By Rafaela Lindeberg / BLOOMBERG

With the rest of the world watching, the Swedish Riksbank is expected to raise its benchmark repo rate from minus 0.25 percent to zero on Thursday, ending half a decade of negative rates.

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