- Dutch pension funds PMT and PME have announced a joint investment of €1.15bn into Dutch and European companies.

This investment will provide capital to growing companies, particularly in sectors such as manufacturing, metal and high-tech, in which many of PMT and PME’s participants and employers are active. The funds selected Robeco as the manager of this private corporate debt mandate and MN to direct the roll-out of the mandate on behalf of both funds. The roll-out of the new mandate at Robeco will take place over a period of approximately two years. Robeco developed the mandate in collaboration with MN specifically for PMT and PME. Taking into account the mandate previously awarded to MetLife Investment Management, the total amount of investments in private loans for PMT and PME stands at approximately €2.3bn.

- Danish pension fund AkademikerPension has invested DKK 1.3bn in Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners' (CIP) newest credit fund.

This DKK 1.3bn investment will provide loans for green and climate-friendly energy projects within the sea, solar, wind and batteries. CIP is working to reach approximately DKK 15bn of investment into the fund. This fund is a so-called evergreen fund with no maturity date, unlike traditional fund investments, and therefore has the potential to reinvest AkademikerPension’s investment as individual projects are completed and investments are repaid.

- Dutch pension asset manager PGGM, on behalf of the Dutch Pension Fund for Healthcare and Welfare (PFZW), has invested in Vitestro to help further the development of autonomous blood collection.

Vitestro's latest innovation is the lancing robot, which combines robotics, ultrasound and artificial intelligence to take blood. The robot is designed to simplify the tasks of blood collection teams, enabling medical staff to dedicate their attention to other important care activities. PGGM, on behalf of PFZW, took part in a €60m second round of funding. The consortium for this round consists of new investors InterVest, MGFO, PGGM, Puma Venture Capital and ROM Utrecht, Labcorp Venture Fund, Mayo Clinic and Sutter Health, and existing investors Invest-NL, EIC Fund, NYBC Ventures, and Sonder Capital. This €60m investment will allow Vitestro to further develop and scale up the lancing robot. The market introduction will start in Dutch hospitals and then expand to other European countries and the United States.

- The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway (Finanstilsynet) has confirmed that all pension funds met the solvency capital requirement as of 31 December 2025.

The overall solvency capital coverage for pension funds was 176 per cent, down from 178 per cent as of 31 December 2024. Finanstilsynet's data also showed that solvency capital coverage decreased by 3 percentage points for private pension funds and remained unchanged for municipal pension funds.

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