- The Rangæinga Pension Fund has accepted the government's offer to settle HFF bonds.

A group of 18 pension funds have worked since 2022 to protect the interests of bondholders of HFF34 and HFF44, along with advisors Logos and Arctica, against the Icelandic state. Over the past year, the Rangæinga Pension Fund and the group have been discussing a solution to this issue with state representatives. After thoroughly analysing and evaluating a settlement offer from the state based on overall interests, the fund accepted the terms.

- Sweden's AP7 and the Premium Pension celebrate 25 years of work.

In 2000, the Swedish people were given the freedom of choice in their pension savings for the first time, following parliamentary decisions in 1994 and 1998. The premium pension was introduced with hundreds of funds offered to 4.4 million savers covered by the system. For those who did not want to choose, AP7 was founded with the non-choice Premiesparfonden. AP7 will highlight the anniversary by holding talks, celebrations and a podcast series throughout the year.

- KPA Pension has won the Golden Egg 2025 in the 'impact' category.

KPA Pension took home first prize at this year's Guldäggsgala for the campaign "Thank you for taking care of us; we'll take care of you later." KPA Pension brand manager, Malin Gaimer, said the win was proof that the campaign's concept had succeeded in changing how its target group, employees in the municipality and region, viewed pensions and KPA Pension.

- The Finnish Centre for Pensions (ETK) has published new guidelines on Finnish social insurance contributions in several languages.

The guidelines aim to help employers and employees in different countries understand what social insurance contributions need to be paid to Finland for work done in Finland and where these contributions are handled. The guidelines are available in PDF format in English, Italian, French, German, Russian, Estonian, Finnish, Swedish, and now also in Spanish.

- Ilmarinen has warned that scam messages are being sent in its name.

The Finnish pension fund said it has recently noticed fraudulent text messages claiming to be from Ilmarinen asking customers to log in to the bank on a separate website at ilmarinen.com. It stated that this was a phishing attempt aimed at obtaining personal information, such as online banking credentials, as text messages from Ilmarinen never contain a link or ask for a customer's username or password.

- ABP Pension Fund has updated its pension planner to be more user-friendly.

The Dutch pension fund has added several new features, such as a 'brief explanation' of the service when opening the planner, a new layout, progress in view at the top of the planner, and an adjustment to date selection for users.

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