2009

• Second AP Fund publishes Corporate Governance Report

  Today we publish the Second Swedish National Pension Fund/AP2’s Corporate Governance Report for 2008/2009. As well as presenting the Fund’s governance activities, the Report contains feature articles…

  Published 13 October 2009

• The Ethical Council rewarded with NRPN’s award for Best SRI-strategy

  The AP-funds joint  Ethical Council has received NRPN´s award for Best SRI-strategy 2009. NRPN stands for Nordic Region Pension and Investment News, and is a publication within the Financial Time…

  Published 13 October 2009

• Continuing high share of equities fuels solid recovery

  The first half of the year saw some major market fluctuations, even if the situation on the world’s equities, fixed-income and foreign exchange markets was somewhat calmer, compared to autumn 2008. Th…

  Published 24 August 2009

• Ethical Council: Three dialogues lead to desired effect

  The Ethical Council of Sweden’s First to Fourth AP Funds conducts active dialogue with companies that are associated with breaches of the international conventions signed by Sweden. Its aim is to pressure these companies toward action to prevent similar incidents in the future.
  Three of the companies on the Ethical Council’s dialogue list, Grupo Ferrovial S.A. of Spain,  PetroChina Company Limited of China and Thales SA of France, have met the goals set by the Ethical Council when the dialogues were initiated, and have thus taken satisfactory action.  The cases in question involve infringement of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, the Basel Convention on Hazardous Waste and the UN Convention Against Corruption.

  Published 18 May 2009

• Ethical Council of Sweden’s AP Funds presents annual report for 2008: Successful dialogues with the companies

  The Ethical Council of Sweden’s First to Fourth AP Funds has today presented its annual report for 2008, in which the Council reports on the past year’s progress in ongoing dialogues with companies su…

  Published 02 April 2009