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Risk and compliance jobs were one of the highlights of last year, and 2010 looks set to be no different, with boardrooms and senior management now taking much more notice of what risk managers and executives are saying – and prepared to pay good money for rock-solid advice. Danske Bank rounded off last year by establishing a new chief risk officer function, reporting straight to chairman Peter Straarup. The importance attached to... Read more

Employees at Norges Bank Investment Management, the Norwegian government pension fund, saw their average pay rise by 258% last year compared with 2008, as the fund reported its best year ever, fuelled by the booming international equity and fixed income markets. The fund, the largest sovereign wealth fund in Europe, returned 25.6%, equivalent to NOK613bn (€76.4bn), it has said in its annual report, with the fund worth NOK2,640bn (€329bn) at the... Read more

Sweden and Norway are rapidly developing a reputation as something of a hub for green and responsible investing, in turn leading to growing opportunities for asset and fund managers, as well as local banks, to carve out a niche within the ethical, environmental and responsible investment arena. In January Swedish firm BMC announced it was to build a $150m (€109m) bio-energy plant in the US, along with a German partner, while... Read more

Want to know where the jobs will and won’t be in the Nordics next year? Here’s our considered opinion… 2010 WILL BE A GOOD YEAR FOR JOBS AND HIRING IN…. International banks Credit Suisse will be opening a Stockholm office later this year and is unlikely to be the only international bank targeting the Nordics during 2010, in the process creating openings and opportunities for local bankers with the right talents... Read more

2009 WAS A GOOD YEAR FOR…. Bonuses On the one hand, clearly, it was a bad year for banking bonuses, what with performance-related remuneration becoming as much a public whipping post in the Nordics as everywhere else in the world and the spectre of tougher regulation still very much on the cards. But look at what Nordic banks were actually shelling out in some areas this year, despite the global downturn, and you... Read more

Nordic private equity firms are expected to be dipping their toes back into the recruitment market next year, as activity and fund-raising in the region looks set to remain strong. Last month Danish telecoms operator TDC said it planned to merge with its majority owner Nordic Telephone Company, which is in turn owned by a consortium of private equity firms comprising Apax Partners, Blackstone, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Permira Advisers and Providence... Read more

With less money to go around, less appetite for complex financial products and even wealthy individuals feeling the pinch, private banks have seen their income fall by a third this year, according to one of the region’s leading bankers. And, while Sweden’s ageing population means the longer term outlook for wealth management and private banking remains positive, next year is unlikely to see that many hiring opportunities coming up. Incomes have gone... Read more

Financial services remains a popular career choice for graduates in Norway, but they seem to be seeking the relative security of large accounting firms and the bigger domestic players. Research firm Universum takes in responses from over 11,000 final and penultimate year students on the top 100 most attractive firms to work for and in Norway a large proporation of the firms making up the ranks are within financial services. However, the... Read more

Finland’s banking sector was cut back to the bone following its near collapse in the early-1990s, but with recruitment largely frozen this year and further redundancies likely, concerns have been raised about the sector's aging workforce. The 1991 crisis was caused by the combination of the liberalisation of the sector leading to a surge in cheap debt, the disintegration of the Soviet Union spurring a collapse in lucrative trade agreements and... Read more