Swedish AP3’s chief investment officer Erik Valtonen tells Caroline Liinanki about the buffer fund’s new strategies portfolio and how its new allocation model helps take advantage of current market conditions

The International Corporate Governance Network’s (ICGN) executive director Carl Rosén tells Caroline Liinanki what challenges lie ahead for institutional investors and why they need to become better organised

PFA group CEO Henrik Heideby tells Spencer Anderson why the risk-averse Danish pensions insurance company would have had more impressive returns had it been less cautious

Timo Viherkenttä, deputy CEO of Keva, the Finnish Local Government Pensions Institution, tells Caroline Liinanki what lessons have been learnt from its poor performance last year, and about the changes it is planning to its investment strategy

AP1’s CEO Johan Magnusson tells Caroline Liinanki why the fund is reducing its active management in favour of strategic asset allocation and discusses the difficult role of the AP funds

Following minor losses in 2008, Gustav Karner, chief financial officer at Länsförsäkringar, tells Caroline Liinanki why pension funds should maintain a consistent level of risk and about the importance of asset allocation

As the review of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global’s ethical guidelines is coming to an end, Hjalmar Tjan asks council on ethics chair Gro Nystuen about her assessment of the system so far

Skandia Liv’s chief investment officer, Hans Sterte, tells Caroline Liinanki why, despite reporting some of the weakest results in 2008, he still plans to diversify the company’s portfolio and why risky bank debt is interesting

After withstanding the worst of the economic storm and emerging with limited damage from its use of financial instruments, Danish ATP’s CEO, Lars Rohde, tells Hjalmar Tjan how the company has protected its reserves and explains his critical views on hedge funds

Having recently taken over as Finnish pension insurance company Ilmarinen’s head of investments, Timo Ritakallio tells Caroline Liinanki what allocation changes the company is planning for 2009 and discusses the fate of its poorly-performing external managers