IPE's Sweden Coverage – Page 49
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Nordic roundup: Skanska, QIS 5, Sweden, Findland
Pension Foundation for Skanska sees 7% returns with two-fifths of assets invested in alternatives.
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Swedish roundup: AP7, Skandia Nordic, Swedbank, Momentum
Responses to government consultation on investment savings have been largely negative.
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Swedish roundup: AP6, Statistics Sweden, Strömsund pension foundation
National buffer fund returns 9.4% for 2010 against target return of 6.5%.
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Swedish roundup: Länsförsäkringar, SEB, Irish Life, AP7, Dombron
Länsförsäkringar expresses disappointment with below-average returns of 4.1% in 2010.
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Nordic roundup: AP4, AP1, Alecta, Folksam Liv, KPA Pension, Skandia Liv
AP4 returned 11% for the full year 2010, while assets increased by SEK17.1bn (€2bn) to SEK212.8bn.
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Sweden's AP2 targets further EM debt exposure for growth
Chief investment officer says current exposure is only in hard currency, not local currency.
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Nordic roundup: Storebrand, Global 100, SEB, Swedbank, Handelsbanken
Storebrand comes in 9th place on list of 100 most sustainable companies in world.
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Swedish roundup: SEB, Collectum
SWEDEN – SEB's wealth management business, which includes private banking and institutional clients, saw operating profits increase by 45% to SEK1.65bn (€187m) during the full year 2010.
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Swedish roundup: PP Pension, Storebrand, PIMCO, Folksam, Swedish Pensions Agency
Buffer capital for PP Pension, the media pension fund, jumps from 105.7% to 111.2%.
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Swedish roundup: SPK, Alecta, Collectum
SPK, the pension fund for the Swedish savings institutions, returned 8.5% for 2010.
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Swedish roundup: SRI, Storebrand, Collectum, Prognosia, AP7, Pensionsmyndigheten
SWEDEN – The majority of Swedes believe in sustainable pension investments, according to a study by SPP, the pension and insurance provider owned by Storebrand.
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Swedish roundup: AP7, AP6, KVD Kvarndammen, Peter Norman, Handelsbanken
SWEDEN – Richard Gröttheim is taking over as chief executive at AP7 following the departure of Peter Norman, who joined the government as financial markets minister.
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Swedish roundup: Folksam, Svenska Lärarfonder, Skandia, Finansinspektionen, KP Pension, Handelsbanke
SWEDEN – Pension and insurance provider Folksam is to buy the insurance portfolio of Svenska Lärarfonder, the Swedish teachers’ fund manager, from rival pension and insurance company Skandia.
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Swedish roundup: AP3, BlackRock, JP Morgan, AXA, M&G, Folksam
SWEDEN – AP3, Sweden's SEK209bn (€22bn) national buffer fund, has appointed 14 new regional corporate bond managers.
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Swedish roundup: EC on pension fund tax rules, SEB Trygg Liv Gamla, PP Pension, AP7, Al Gore
SWEDEN – The European Commission has urged Sweden to change its tax rules governing pension funds, which it says are discriminatory because they favour domestic funds over foreign ones.
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Nordic roundup: Skagen Fonder, PPM, Gjensidige, Alecta, AMF, Länsförsäkringar
EUROPE – Skagen Fonder, the largest foreign manager within the Swedish premium based state pension system PPM, is considering withdrawing its funds from the system.
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Assets at Nordea's Life & Pensions division surge by 19%
EUROPE – Nordea's Life & Pensions division saw a significant rise in the value of assets under management in the third quarter of this year, which the Nordic and Baltic banking group attributed to asset price growth, as well as net inflows.
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Swedish roundup: Skandia Liv, Handelsbanken Liv, Swedbank, AI Pensions, AP7
SWEDEN – Skandia Liv, the life and pensions insurer, returned 6.7% for the first nine months of the year as a result of its high real estate holdings, which posted returns of 8.9% for the period.
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Swedish roundup: Alecta, Swedish Church Pension Fund
SWEDEN – According to a survey by Alecta, the pension and insurance provider, more than half of Sweden's entire working population (61%) would consider declining a salary increase in favour of higher occupational pensions.
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Nordic roundup: PIMCO, Storebrand, Catella Fondförvaltning, Söderberg & Partners, AI Pension
EUROPE – PIMCO, the US bond specialist, has appointed Storebrand, the Norwegian pension and insurance provider, for the SRI screening of one of its new bond funds, the PIMCO Emerging Markets SRI Bond.