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1 week ago | 
ipe.com | Rachel Fixsen
Daniel Barr, the former head of the Swedish Pensions Agency (Pensionsmyndigheten) and current head of the country’s FSA (Finansinspektionen, FI), is finally being removed from his job as the finance ministry admits an embarrassing conflict of interests over the last few months could threaten confidence.
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1 week ago | 
ipe.com | Rachel Fixsen
The Danish FSA says pension funds and asset managers in the Nordic country are falling short of their legal requirements to disclose their approaches to corporate governance and sustainability – and it singled out Sampension for official orders to correct procedures.
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1 week ago | 
ipe.com | Rachel Fixsen
Sweden’s big four AP national pension buffer funds have defended the way they invested in the now-collapsed battery company Northvolt, using a joint venture firm they set up themselves, saying that despite criticism by Swedish public television, it was all within the rules.
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1 week ago | 
ipe.com | Rachel Fixsen
ATP has named the completed line-up for the external evaluation panel it announced in January, picking two non-Danish academics known for previously having delivered officially-commissioned scrutiny of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund in neighbouring Norway.
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1 week ago | 
ipe.com | Rachel Fixsen
Norway’s finance minister Jens Stoltenberg has defended the current investment strategy of the country’s huge sovereign wealth fund (SWF), after the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), hit by whipsawing financial markets this week, has now lost billions since the start of the year.
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2 weeks ago | 
moabsunnews.com | Rachel Fixsen
Hello friends and fellow music lovers, it’s Cosmo the Library Cat! I’m here to let you all know that I’ll be postponing my midmorning nap on Saturday, April 12. I have gotten a much better invitation and I want to tell you about it too. Grand County Public Library will be hosting a drumming group—Moab Taiko Dan—to perform at a special Musical Story Hour on Saturday, April 12 at 10:30 a.m. You might wonder at a library inviting a group of drummers.
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2 weeks ago | 
ipe.com | Rachel Fixsen
Denmark’s ATP has revealed that it restricts the number of green bond issuers in its portfolio partly because of the resource-heavy task of checking that the proceeds really are used for environmentally beneficial purposes.
The DKK718bn (€96.2bn) statutory pension fund said in an analysis on the need for investors to follow up on green bonds, that investors played an important role in assessing the fixed income investments – both before and after purchase.
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3 weeks ago | 
ipe.com | Rachel Fixsen
Amid growing trade relations hostility between the US and Europe, Denmark’s pensions lobby has justified the heavy levels of investment by its members in the US, and said that balance could shift were the European Union to improve the framework for growth investments closer to home.
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3 weeks ago | 
ipe.com | Rachel Fixsen
Amid growing trade relations hostility between the US and Europe, Denmark’s pensions lobby has justified the heavy levels of investment by its members in the US, and said that balance could shift were the European Union to improve the framework for growth investments closer to home.
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3 weeks ago | 
ipe.com | Rachel Fixsen
Pension funds in Denmark are signalling a continued commitment to pushing for diversity in the composition of the boards at companies they invest in, at home and abroad, in 2025 – particularly in their voting at this year’s annual general meetings (AGMs).
