Swedish Fund Selection Agency

The Swedish Fund Selection Agency is an authority with a mandate to procure, monitor and quality-ensure funds for the premium pension fund platform. The government authority consists of a board appointed by the government, and an office responsible for the operational tasks. The aim of the Swedish Fund Selection Agency, FTN, is to procure funds of high quality and various risk profiles for the fund platform for the premium pension. It will also enter into fund agreements with those fund managers which offer funds at the platform.

Country

Sweden

AUM

$108

Chief Executive

Erik Fransson

Chief Investment Officer

Tina Rönnholm

Performance Notes

Fund performance is NA

Chair

Mats Sjöstrand

Asset allocation

Website

The role of insurers helping create sustainable pension systems

Ensuring a sustainable income in retirement is an enduringly knotty problem and one that continues to preoccupy countries' pension systems and their asset manager partners. NEST, Sweden's Fund Selection Agency and US asset manager Apollo reflect on the future of retirement.

‘So far so good’: Sweden’s FTN bags 150bps equity fund return improvement

In an endorsement of its hard work over the last year, Sweden’s Fund Selection Agency, which procures and monitors the funds on offer on the country’s premium pension platform, is already starting to see improved returns and lower fees from the wave of new equity funds it mandated.

Sweden’s FTN scouts for domestic, European small cap managers

Nordic pension giant the Swedish Fund Selection Agency (FTN) is on the hunt for active Swedish and European small cap equity managers in a SEK 46 billion ($4.6 billion) tender. It comes as asset owners revisit small cap strategies as a useful diversification from US mega cap equities.