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AP7 finds Gröttheim successor in Swedbank’s Pål Bergström
Swedish national pension fund’s future CEO has both public and private-sector finance experience
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AP7 selects managers for SEK230bn in passive equity mandates [updated]
Swedish pension investor hires manager, drops Svenska Handelsbanken
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Winner of IPE Scholar Award 2004 named
Riitta Hallila, head of sales at Svenska Handelsbanken in Helsinki, has been announced as the IPE Scholar for 2004.
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McPhee steps down as chief executive at Sweden's SPP
Chief executive to step down after seven years as head of pension insurer owned by Norway’s Storebrand
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Swedish life insurer SPP plans mutual vote
SWEDEN – Swedish life insurer SPP’s policy-holders will vote in the next few months over whether it should demutualise, parent Svenska Handelsbanken said.
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Sweden’s SPP gets two board members
SWEDEN - Kerstin Wahlund and Håkan Sandberg have been appointed as new members of the board of SPP Livförsäkring AB, the former mutually owned pension insurance group that’s now part of Svenska Handelsbanken.
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Former AP3 CIO appointed CEO at Switzerland's Blue Diamond
EUROPE – Erik Valtonen to head privately held investment boutique founded in 2009.
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Handelsbanken gets pension surplus boost
SWEDEN - Svenska Handelsbanken says its pension surplus is set to boost shareholder equity by around one billion crowns (107.6 million euros).
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State Street loses as Folksam changes custodian
SWEDEN - State Street, SEB Securities Services and Foreningssparbanken have lost custody mandates with Folksam Insurance.
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SPP wins Österåkers pensions admin
SWEDEN – The Swedish municipality Österåkers has hired SPP Liv Pensionstjänst, the administration arm of the Swedish pension insurance group SPP Livförsäkring AB, for the administration of its pension fund.
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Stockholm tenders pensions administration
SWEDEN – The city of Stockholm is tendering a roughly SEK30m (€3.2m) four-year occupational pension administration contract.
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Top 1000 Pension Funds 2024: Pensions back at a sweet spot
Assets for the leading 1000 European pension funds grew by 8.7% year-on-year, reversing last year’s loss of 6.8%. This brings total assets back up to above their previous high water mark of €9.7trn in 2022’s research exercise. This year’s overall net gain in assets of €775bn is the largest since 2021’s increase of €810bn.
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AP2 appoints raft of managers to SEK130bn fund
SWEDEN - The SEK130bn (e14.6bn) Gothenburg based AP fonden 2 has appointed six new asset managers and a global custodian...
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Norway’s KLP rejects conversion to public status
NORWAY – Members of the NOK140bn (€17bn) mutually owned Norwegian life insurance and asset management firm KLP has rejected its board’s plan to convert into a public limited company.
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AP2 names State Street as its new global custodian
SWEDEN- Sweden’s second national pension fund AP2 has appointed State Street to provide investment services, including global custody and fund accounting, for its $14bn in assets.
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Swedish fund fires Nordea, Handelsbanken and SEB
SWEDEN- The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, one of Sweden’s largest charitable foundations, is sacking the leading Swedish banks that handle the bulk of its E1bn portfolio. It says it intends to replace them with three smaller ‘boutique’ asset managers.