Nordea to acquire pension portfolios from Frende Forsikring in Norway
Nordea has agreed to acquire the occupational and individual pension portfolios from Frende Livsforsikring AS (“Frende”) and intends to combine the business with its Norwegian insurance subsidiary Livforsikringsselskapet Nordea Liv Norge AS (“Nordea Liv”). As part of the transaction, Nordea Liv will also enter into a long-term agreement to distribute pension products with the Norwegian savings banks which own Frende. Frende has offered insurance services in Norway since 2007. Its occupational and individual pension portfolios have total unit-linked assets of approximately NOK 4.2 billion,