
Increasingly troubling news—from wildfire damage to sea temperature anomalies—continues to remind us about the urgency of action on climate change.

Martha Brindle, Director, Public Markets at bfinance sat down with Flora Gaber, Head of ESG Analysis at AP7, part of the Swedish Public Pension agency which manages around $80 billion, to discuss her organisation’s climate journey and its involvement as a participating member of the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).

Less than a decade after the removal of capital controls that banned pension funds from investing assets overseas, Iceland is now achieving international recognition for the strength and health of its retirement savings system. The country has claimed the top spot in the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index for the past two consecutive years, ahead of the Netherlands and Denmark.

The past two years have seen huge growth in the availability of private market strategies that offer some degree of in-built liquidity, such as open-ended funds and diversified multi-manager strategies.

Next month will mark five years since Velliv (formerly Nordea Liv and Pension, Denmark) left its parent company—the banking group Nordea—to forge a new identity as a member-owned pension provider. Chief among the challenges was the need to build up an investment management function that had previously been handled in large part by Nordea.
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