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Monday 13. march 2017
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Luxembourg wealth manager aims to double Danish business over 3 years after Mifid II
The company may have a sign at Copenhagen city hall square, but apart from this one sign, advertisement and publicity is not part of the plan when BIL Danmark plans to double its wealth management business in Denmark over the next three years.
Former minister proposes revamp of Swedish public pension system
Sweden's former financial markets minister Peter Norman is proposing a revamp of the Swedish public pension system, taking away investment decisions from new members of the system. This would cut out asset managers offering some 850 funds to Sweden's pension savers, who currently has about EUR 100 billion invested in the current PPM-system.
Danish FSA ready to send pension input to minister
The turnout was large at the Danish Financial Supervisory Agency's conference on "Pensions when the warranties disappear", and the Director General of the Danish FSA, Jesper Berg, is looking forward to forwarding input to the political system
From actuary to head of Denmark's fourth largest commercial pension provider
Career path: Bo Normann Rasmussen was recently named Chief Executive of AP Pension, the fourth largest commercial pension provider in Denmark, with some 110 billion DKK, or 14.8 billion EUR, under management.
...and more about people
Denmark's ATP hires a new media relations advisor, Swedbank hires new head of group sustainability, and Swedish state venture capital firm hires new head of talent.
Danish Standard Life partner on merger with Aberdeen: We'll manage
Capital Investment, which manages Scottish asset manager Standard Life's Danish investments, has faith in a possible merger between Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management despite the reality that a merger could render the Danish partner dispensable.
Danish pension funds invest in Brazilian solar project
This summer, two years of construction will begin to provide Brazil with 180 MW in solar panel plants. Denmark's European Energy, along with several pension funds, is behind the plants and might be headed in the direction of wind turbine investments as well.
New Danske Bank wealth manager wants fewer products
The new head of asset management in Danske Bank's asset management department is going to drastically cut down on the number of funds and mutual funds, he tells Danish business daily Børsen.
The blacklist grows by 10 at Norway's oil fund
Another 10 companies can bid farewell to investments from the Norwegian oil fund due to their coal-related activities.
EU demands crisis prognoses from asset managers
The European Commission will henceforth require that asset managers provide investors with prognoses for the funds' performance in case of a new financial crisis.
Denmark's Maj Invest more than doubles 2016 profits
The independent Danish asset manager Maj Invest increased its bottom line by 120 percent in 2016. "The good results are largely attributable to many of our clients achieving good returns, both in 2016 and a number of years back. It's very satisfactory," says CEO.
Investment lobby: Eco-standards could exclude US Treasury bonds
The requirements to become an investment fund labeled with the Nordic Swan Ecolabel are too harsh and illogical, according to the Danish Investment Fund Association (IFB). This could potentially exclude bonds issued by the United States Treasury from the portfolios, say the lobbyists.
Vacant jobs
Head of investment risk - Industriens Pension
System Operation Specialist with an interest in SimCorp Dimension to PFA Asset Management
Risk Analyst for the investment department - Pension Denmark
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