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Swedish roundup: AP6, AMF Pension, Kåpan Pensioner
AP6 follows up investment in tech fund Northzone VII
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AMF Pension sacks deputy CEO
[16:40 CET 18-03] SWEDEN – AMF Pension has confirmed Ingvar Skeberg, the deputy chief executive, has left the company after it was discovered he transferred his own pension capital ahead of pension dividend cuts announced in February.
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Elmehagen to leave AMF Pension
[12:50 CET 10-12] SWEDEN – Christer Elmehagen, the chief executive of Sweden’s largest fund company, AMF Pension has said he will leave the company at the end of 2008.
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AMF Pension reports 10.9% return
[16:45 CET 05-11] SWEDEN – AMF Pension has reported a nine-month return of 10.9%, allowing it to increase the bonus rate for its defined contribution traditional insurance plan to 8%.
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AMF Pension condemns Scania deal
[12:00 CET 06-03] SWEDEN – Sweden’s largest fund company AMF Pension has contacted fellow small shareholders to demand a review of Swedish takeover rules.
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AMF Pension seeks new investment head
[16:30 CEST 15-09] SWEDEN – AMF Pension is looking for a new chief investment officer following Sarah McPhee appointment as the new chief executive of Nordic pension provider SPP.
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AMF Pension returns 16%
SWEDEN – AMF Pension has released its 2005 results, showing a 16% return – up from 9.7% in 2004.
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New chairman at AMF Pension Fondförvaltning
SWEDEN – AMF Pension Fondförvaltning’s, the fund administration company owned by AMF Pension, has named Tor Marthin as its new chairman.
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AMF pension grows to €26.8bn
SCANDINAVIA – AMF Pension has announced a 3.6% return on investments for the first quarter, with assets under management rising to some SEK250bn (€26.8bn).
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AMF Pension wins Cannes Lions advertising award
[16:30 CEST 19-06] SWEDEN – The advertising bureau behind a novel advertising campaign for Sweden’s largest fund company AMF Pension has won a prestigious prize lauding the campaign’s success in making young people think about pensions.
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AMF Pension announces contribution holiday
SWEDEN - AMF Pension has announced that it is to grant a contributions holiday for this year to 100,000 employers that contributed to a discontinued defined benefit pensions scheme for Swedish blue-collar workers.
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AMF Pension issues warning on Swedish reform
SWEDEN – The Swedish pension fund AMF Pension argues that the recent pension reform will fail if the government does not put more resources into pension education and information.
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SWIP wins rare AMF Pension mandate
SWEDEN – The SEK245bn (€26bn) Swedish fund AMF Pension has awarded a European small-cap mandate to Scottish Widows Investment Partnership worth approximately SEK150m.
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AMF Pension makes 0.5% return
SWEDEN - AMF Pension’s total returns were down to 0.5% in the first half of 2006 from 8.6% for the same period last year.
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AMF Pension returns to real estate
SWEDEN - The 197 billion-crown (21.3 billion-euro) pension provider AMF Pension has made its first investment in real estate in a year, buying three properties from Skanska for more than one billion crowns.
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AMF Pension names Tunhammar as chairman
SWEDEN – The 22.9 billion euro AMF Pension says it has named Göran Tunhammar as its new board chairman, replacing Olof Ljunggren who is stepping down after eight years.
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AMF Pension names Björkén to fixed income role
SWEDEN – AMF Pension has rejigged its fixed income management, with Bengt Björkén become acting head of fixed income and Lars Aberg taking an ALM role.
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Sweden’s AMF Pension swings to positive returns
SWEDEN – AMF Pension made a total return of 10.8% in 2003, marking a shift from a negative 10.2% return a year before.
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AMF Pension hikes bonus rate for 2m pensioners
SWEDEN - The SEK220bn (€24.08bn) pension provider AMF Pension says it is to increase its bonus rate on traditional pension policies from five to six percent from next month.
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AMF Pension returns 4.3% in first half
SWEDEN- The 210 billion-crown (22.8 billion-euro) pension provider AMF Pension has reported a return of 4.3% in the first half of the year - compared with last year’s first half result of 5.8%.