People moves
Find out who’s moving up and who’s moving on with our latest news and round-ups for the pensions and investments sectors
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People moves: AP Funds appoint new chairs
Plus: JPES Partners appoints duo; GSAM hires CIO for the Netherlands
More People News
SOKA-BAU’s chief investment officer to step down
Gregor Asshoff will leave the German pension fund after almost 10 years
Sweden names duo to oversee Stockholm, Gothenburg AP fund mergers
Eva-Lena Norgren, Niklas Johansson appointed as coordinators of the complex upcoming national pension fund fusions
Nicolai Tangen wins five more years as head of Norway’s SWF
Norges Bank governor praises former hedge fund manager for ‘strong ability to deliver and achieve solid results’
Velliv finds new CIO in Nordea AM’s private markets chief
Lea Vaisalo will preside over index-based strategy, whose advent involved exit of alternatives, active equity teams
Scheme for German dentists fires director
VZB is facing losses after investing in now insolvent insurtech start-up Element Insurance
Velliv drops active equity, alts teams ahead of new CIO, as strategy turns index
Alternatives chief Christoph Junge surprised when whole alts team was made redundant yesterday; Velliv to cut external manager costs
Norway’s central bank flooded with male applicants for SWF chief job
‘We would like to see a more even gender distribution,’ says Norges Bank
Alecta resumes efforts to find a chair, as Magnus Hall wins FSA approval
Swedish pensions giant announces Hall approved by watchdog, paving the way for his nomination and election
Chair of UK’s pensions regulator Sarah Smart to step down
Smart will step down in July 2025
BlackRock names new head of sustainable and transition solutions
BlackRock says it runs more than $1trn in sustainable and transition assets
Norway’s new Arctic SWF unit hires first three portfolio managers
Ulf Nore, Tonje Roti and Ola Oppegaard appointed to work in Tromsø at Folketrygdfondet’s new asset management union from mid-April
Brunel’s Ward to help steer UK Transition Finance Council
Faith Ward hopes new body will ‘deliver tangible progress in enabling transition finance for the UK, and globally’
PIC CEO Tracy Blackwell to retire after 20 years of service
The board has now processed with the formal search for successor
IPE UK Briefing: UK consultations to unlock £80bn from LGPS and DC funds
Plus: DB surplus extraction, a new pensions minister, and NEST takes 10% stake in Australia’s IFM
Northern Trust AM scoops up APG quant quartet
The team had been made redundant as APG terminated its quant strategy offering last year
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