Mats Andersson appointed new managing director of Catella Fonder

Mats Andersson has been appointed managing director of Catella’s subsidiary, Catella Fondförvaltning AB, as from 19 March 2012. Mats Andersson was most recently managing director of Ålandsbanken in Sweden.

Mats Andersson takes over as managing director from Stefhan Klang, who in November chose to step down as managing director in order to focus instead on sales and business development within the company. During the transitional period, Catella AB’s CLO, Johan Nordenfalk, has served as acting managing director of Catella Fonder.

“We are delighted to have recruited Mats Andersson to the position of managing director of Catella Fonder. Mats’ long experience of heading capital management organisations will serve him well at Catella. We are about to embark on extensive development and renewal work aimed at strengthening Catella's position as an asset manager, and Catella Fonder will play an important role in this,” says Johan Ericsson, managing director of Catella AB.

“Catella has a long and successful history within asset management and, over the course of the years, has developed extremely strong expertise and broad experience within the area. It will be very exciting and stimulating to develop the operations and further strengthen our offering, together with Catella's staff,” says Mats Andersson, managing director designate of Catella Fonder.

The Catella Group’s capital management units have assets under management totalling approximately SEK 34 billion, of which approximately SEK 17 billion in the Swedish operations.

For more information, please contact:
Johan Ericsson
Chief Executive Officer, Catella
+46 8 463 33 10

Press contact:
Viktoria Ejenäs
Communications Officer, Catella
+46 8 463 33 34, +46 72 726 33 34

About Catella: Catella is a European finance group active in Corporate Finance and Asset Management. In these operating segments, Catella focuses on selected segments in which advanced specialist expertise and local presence, combined with international reach, are key in creating added value for clients. Catella has approximately 450 employees working at offices in 24 cities in 12 European countries. Catella share is listed on First North Premier and traded under the abbreviations CAT A and CAT B. Remium AB is Catella’s Certified Adviser, 46 8 454 32 00. Read more about Catella at www.catella.se.

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