Allan Polack, chief executive officer of Nordea Asset Management, is heading up a task force that looks to influence policymakers in Brussels to ensure regulation does not hinder institutional investors from making long-term investment decisions.

Karl Swartling, head of apparently doomed private equity specialist AP6, is manoeuvring to preserve its key characteristics and is choosing his battleground with care

Global pensions authority Keith Ambachtsheer has looked under the bonnet of the Finnish pensions system to see how it stacked up against its peers

ATP’s Henrik Gade Jepsen tells Caroline Liinanki why it has closed its internal hedge fund unit and how it plans to invest going forward

Peter Hansson, CEO of Sweden’s SPK, tells George Coats why unintended consequences arising from Solvency II mean it is not fit for purpose for pension funds and what should be done to remedy the situation

Guarantees and the discounting of liabilities remain the sticking points in Europe as the Solvency II deadline is pushed back by two years

Bengt-Åke Fagerman, chief executive officer of Skandia Liv, tells Caroline Liinanki about the life company’s acquisition of its parent Skandia AB and the future of guaranteed-rate products

Carina Lundberg Markow tells Caroline Liinanki why divesting from a company is always a failure and about how talking about gender equality makes Swedish companies see red

DNB Livforsikring chief executive Tom Rathke tells Caroline Liinanki about the challenges with Solvency II’s capital requirements and why it is necessary to lower the annual guarantees

Schroders' former CIO tells Owen Walker of the bleak future for developed world growth