Latests Nordic Region News – Page 5
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NewsNorway bumps up SWF spend once more in 2025 budget
Finance minister says deeper delve into oil fund needed to make good on defence promises, and bolster police and hospitals
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NewsATP hands portfolio companies own CSRD reporting wishlist
Danish pensions giant warns ‘over-reporting’ of new ESG rules could drown out the relevant data for the €92.9bn investor
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NewsDanish pensions lobby warns against plethora of reform ideas
‘Simply not enough money’ in labour-market pensions to finance home buying, further education, family time and several years of pension, says Kent Damsgaard, IPD chief
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NewsAlecta, AMF plough more money into ailing Swedish battery firm Polarium
Swedish pension fund duo participate in Polarium’s SEK500m convertible preference share issue
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NewsDanish think-tank says ATP should put all investment out to tender
Free-market think tank CEPOS says ATP is ‘relic of the past’ and does not suit today’s pension system
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NewsSwedish retail chain taps Nordea to invest new pension foundation
Jula establishes own pension scheme for ITP 1 employees; plans to extend in-house offering for SAF-LO in the future
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NewsAP3 favours passing axed buffer fund’s assets to just one fund
Consolidating Stockholm trio is better solution, AP3 says, than increasing mandatory cooperation between the buffer funds
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NewsSwedish agency extends Swedish equities tender; gives details on global equities
FTN publishes preliminary specifications for actively managed global equity funds, and firms up launch date, specifying month of November.
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NewsAlecta hunts for new deputy CEO to replace ‘stability symbol’ Thorslund
CEO of troubled Swedish pensions heavyweight says Katarina Thorslund, due to retire in March, ‘stood for continuity and stability’
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NewsDanish pension funds tell Climate Week how to solve transition financing woes
IPD says Denmark’s pension firms have ‘helped to crack the code’ for harnessing private finance for large-scale energy transition
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NewsSampension sees 27% rise in contributions after corporate client wins
Danish labour-market pensions firm reports year-on-year doubling of one-off contributions, citing pension transfers from other schemes as a result of business wins as the main factor
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NewsSwedish pensions industry calls for more from 2025 budget
Clear rules of the game are crucial for sustainable investments, says Insurance Sweden
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NewsPensionDanmark invests in quantum computing startup Atom
Labour-market pension fund backs Atom Computing with DKK70m after California-based tech firm pledges to set up European HQ in Denmark
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NewsATP’s Northvolt exposure highlights problem of illiquids in geared portfolio
Copenhagen professor argues the challenge of a single-company illiquid investment becoming too dominant is much larger in highly-leveraged portfolio, like ATP’s
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NewsSweden’s AP7, AP2, AP3 back World Bank’s SEK2.6bn EM blue bond
Bond issue designed to promote ocean-friendly projects and improve access to clean water and sanitation in emerging markets
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NewsPKA, Lærernes vow to stick with pensions admin JV despite PBU exit
After 19 years, Forca co-founder PBU quits the pension service provider as it seeks more independence and freedom to choose own product design
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NewsAP3 takes firms to task over rising work fatalities in Sweden
Watered-down corporate climate plans are worrying the €47bn national pensions buffer fund, says sustainability chief
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NewsSwedish pension majors in talks with ailing battery firm Northvolt
Hopes for ambitious Europe-based green battery company have been tempered by slowing electric vehicle rollouts
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NewsSwedish funds agency opens for domestic equities bids in biggest tender yet
Platform reformer FTN invites tenders for more than SEK155bn (€13.6bn) of investment management; aims to halve the number of funds currently on offer
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NewsNorwegian SWF dumps €705m General Dynamics stock in new blacklisting
NBIM announces €1bn of exclusions from its investment universe, in latest batch of companies falling foul of the GPFG’s ethical guidelines
