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Major Swedish Bank Shuffles Senior Research Team
Swedbank, Sweden’s largest bank by customers, has promoted Anna Felländer to chief economist and recruited Olof Manner as head of macro research.
Swedbank, Sweden’s largest bank by customers and a major private bank in the Nordics, has promoted Anna Felländer to chief economist and recruited Olof Manner as head of macro research.
Felländer succeeds Cecilia Skingsley, who left the bank in May to take up the post of deputy governor at the Swedish central bank, Riksbanken.
“In her new role as chief economist, Anna will focus on continuing the bank’s tradition of reaching out in issues that affect our clients, and adding value through qualified macro analysis on critical matters,” said chief executive and president, Michael Wolf when commenting on the appointment.
Felländer has been with Swedbank since 2010, serving as a senior analyst on FX and fixed income and most recently, as head of macro research. Before joining Swedbank, she worked for eight years at the Swedish Ministry of Finance, where she held a number of positions as a specialist in macroeconomics.
In the statement, Swedbank also announced the hire of Olof Manner as the new head of macro research, taking over from Felländer. Manner joins Swedbank from the asset manager Öhman-gruppen, where he currently serves as a senior advisor, having previously held a number of key positions, including head of fixed income and executive vice president. In 2010, he was recruited by the Royal Bank of Scotland serving as head of Scandinavian rates sales for two years.
“Swedbank Research’s strength is in monitoring all asset classes and working fully integrated to build independent analyses with a balanced view. On our continued journey, Anna and Olof will both play important roles,” said Angelique Angervall, head of Swedbank Research.
Felländer will take up her post with immediate effect, while Manner will assume his new position no later than 1 March 2014.
Swedbank has branches in Sweden, the Baltics, across the Nordics, the US and China. As of 30 September 2013 the group had total assets of SEK1.832 trillion ($275.7 billion).
