Investor Profile
Sweden’s recipe for success: Active, low cost, ESG
CEOs at Sweden's four buffer funds link stellar returns to low costs, sustainability and active management.
Sarah RundellMarch 3, 2022
FIS Digital – May 2021
Transparency’s many investor benefits
Research that looks at the relationship between economic transparency and defining investment qualities such as yield spreads, credit ratings and stock price volatility shows sovereign transparency helps improve the value of assets, enables countries to lower their borrowing costs and achieve a better credit rating.
Sarah RundellMay 31, 2021
Manager Relationships
Quality before quantity for AP1
In a world where it’s difficult to find asset managers that regularly beat the market, Swedish pension fund AP1 looks for managers by evaluating people, process and culture first. The head of external asset management, Majdi Chammas explains.
Majdi ChammasOctober 31, 2018
Investor Profile
AP1 to up leverage, factor exposure
AP1 has its sights on broader, more efficient diversification, with plans to intensify its focus on derivatives and shake up its approach to hedge funds. We spoke to CIO, Mikael Angberg.
Sarah RundellNovember 2, 2017
Uncategorised posts
How to allocate assets to combat climate risk
Mercer’s extensive climate change report, launched today, gives investors a practical framework for monitoring and managing climate risk, shifting the discussion from philosophical agreement to practical investment implementation. In Investing in a time of climate change Mercer outlines extensive dynamic investment modelling that analyses changes in the return expectations of assets between 2015 […]
Amanda WhiteJune 5, 2015
Uncategorised posts
Investors alter allocations because of climate risks
A number of large institutional investors, including AP1, the Environment Agency and AustralianSuper, made changes to their strategic asset allocation as a result of Mercer’s 2011 study on climate risks, and now the consultant is working with a new raft of investors to assess forward-looking climate change scenarios against their current allocations. Meanwhile one of […]
Amanda WhiteSeptember 24, 2014