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Annual report 2024: The Council on Ethics for the Swedish National Pension Funds: Proactive work highlights important systemic issues
The Council on Ethics for the Swedish National Pension Funds sums up a year of active engagement. The proactive work addresses important systemic issues, including antimicrobial resistance and the extraction of critical metals and minerals for the green transition. The outcomes d...
Stable execution and US stock market records contributed to strong performance
The year 2024 was impacted by the strong US economy and new record levels in the US stock markets. Easing inflationary pressures and weaker real economic growth prompted more central banks to cut policy rates in 2024 than the world has seen in many years. Through a carefully cons...
Comment from 4 to 1 Investments on Northvolt
The AP Fund-owned company 4 to 1 Investments has received the information that Northvolt has filed for reconstruction in the US, so-called Chapter 11. A restructuring of the company’s capital structure is now starting in parallel with continued operation of the business. 4 to 1 I...
Optimism and stabilisation as visibility improves
Global equity markets rallied during the first half of 2024, while valuations of unlisted assets stabilised. A strong US economy and slowly declining inflationary pressures were the main reasons for company and investor optimism, despite interest rate cuts being fewer than expect...
AP Funds strengthen the Swedish income pension system by adding SEK 142 billion
The average return for the year was 8.1 per cent after costs. The average return of the AP Funds over the last five and ten years amounts to 8.5 and 8.0 per cent per year, respectively, compared with the income index’s performance of 3.5 and 2.8 per cent per year over the corresp...