Preparing for increased equity allocations

As we sit down for this interview at the Veritas offices in central Helsinki at the end of February, the first reflection is that 2025 was an interesting year.

“It was a roller coaster, and I don’t think it’s too dramatic to say that we’ve seen a change in the world order,” says Laura Wickström, who took on the role as CIO of Veritas in the summer of 2024. She first joined the pensions insurance company in early 2018 as deputy CIO and a portfolio manager of private equity and other illiquid fund investments after spending more than eight years at local alternatives manager AIM Capital. Considering the magnitude of political events, Laura Wickström says that market reactions has been fairly mild. It’s, however, not been a year without