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Corporate bonds issued by solid companies are emerging as the safer choice for investors in today’s turbulent market. “In some cases it is better to own corporate bonds issued by companies with stable sales than government bonds issued by countries with weak tax bases and rising expenditures,” SEB’s analysts state in the December Investment Outlook. Hans Peterson, global head of Investment Strategy within SEB’s Private Banking business, discusses investment options in this short video (4:25).

There is a lot of media attention that a hedge fund based in the Virgin Islands has issued a lawsuit against SEB for 200 million euro. SEB denies all the claims. According to The Times newspaper, which published the information, the hedge fund claims SEB waited too long to close the fund's option position during the financial crisis.

Fund management rating institute Standard & Poor’s has awarded SEB’s Asset Selection fund an AA-rating. This places the fund amongst the top-rated UCITS-funds using an absolute return strategy globally. The rating is testament to the long-term high return, the active risk control and the stability and competence in SEB’s global Quant Team, under the leadership of Hans-Olov Bornemann, which is managing the fund.

2008 SEB bought fund manager Key Asset Management. After last autumn's turbulence a conservative launch is now taking place of three funds. "They complement our range of alternative investments," says Kjell Norling, head of global fund distribution at SEB.

SEB will not invest in companies producing antipersonnel mines and cluster bombs. A process to go through all the investments and sell affected holdings has started. “This will be finished by the end of the year,” says Tove Bångstad, head of SEB Fonder.