Archive

  • Chart of the Week: Round the World - with Scandinavian/Nordic SFCRs

    14 June 2024

    Equities stormed on, but in other ways insurers' solvency filings revealed last year was "a mirror image of 2022"

  • Going with the floe - Nordic and Scandinavian CIOs' returns anything but glacial in 2021

    14 November 2022

    While central and southern European CIOs were busy grinding out returns in tough markets, their Nordic and Scandinavian peers were flying, finds Dåvid Wälker

  • Aegon UK to invest £3bn in BlackRock ESG fund

    28 April 2022

    Doubling its workplace default fund to 60%

  • Länsförsäkringar blacklists BlackRock funds

    28 April 2022

    Swedish insurer excludes two funds on fossil fuel and ESG breaches

  • Länsförsäkringar nails 15% return on assets in 2021

    16 February 2022

    Group replacing existing sustainable funds - with even more sustainable portfolios

  • Länsförsäkringar CFO becomes acting CEO after top-echelon discord

    15 February 2022

    Fredrik Bergström also leaves the Swedish trade body

  • Länsförsäkringar switches three fixed income funds to ESG alternatives

    13 August 2021

    Returns to take short term hit but will keep up on long term

  • The real deal - Europe's insurers primed for G7 infrastructure plan

    14 June 2021

    Leaders of the 'G7' economies announced the 'Build Back Better World' global infrastructure programme, a 'step-change' in their approach to 'mobilise private-sector capital' for the asset class as never before. Europe's insurers stand ready to help, David Walker reports.

  • Länsförsäkringar nearly doubled its investments in ESG bonds in 2020

    14 April 2021

    Most of the SEK 7.5bn investments were in climate related bonds

  • High ESG scores don't correlate to being controversy-free, Länsförsäkringar research shows

    22 March 2021

    Swedish insurer building AI tool to tackle ESG data limitations