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Alternatives, ESG and capital control limitations

At the end of December, Tell Media Group, in cooperation with Schroders, invited Icelandic pension funds to discuss asset allocation going into 2022. Tell Media Group founder Niklas Tell and Nordic Fund Selection Journal editor Caroline Liinanki moderated the roundtable.

Niklas Tell 2022-03-04

Event

The discussion started out with Caroline Liinanki asking the Icelandic pension fund participants about the main changes to their investment portfolio and strategy over the past year.

SIGURBJÖRN SIGURBJÖRNSSON: “Our main focus has been on alternatives, especially abroad, and we’ve been increasing that part of our portfolio. We have been focusing a little bit on the listed equity market as well but our main focus has been on alternatives. We started with that strategy in 2000 but had to stop in 2008 due to the capital controls. We re-started in 2014 and have been working on that ever since.” ARNE VAGN OLSEN: “It’s similar for us and I think you will probably see the same in most portfolios today. The pricing in some of the public markets

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