Donald Trump's second term has entered a new phase, where responsibility for the economy rests even more firmly on the administration's shoulders. Trump’s nominee became the head of the Federal Reserve, so it is even harder to find a scapegoat for monetary policy. Economic policy, meanwhile, faces the same problems as the central bank.
France, Italy, Spain, and two smaller EU countries (the Netherlands and Lithuania) are pressuring the Union to improve trade restrictions to better compete against China and protect their own industries.
China is currently in the midst of the most significant economic revision in its history. The country, which for decades served as an assembly point for cheap mass production and foreign technology, is rapidly moving towards an era that the Beijing administration calls "new viable productive forces."
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The US stock markets and consumer sentiment are showing an unprecedented detachment from each other, which also raises questions about the correct valuation level of the markets.
Sampo Group started 2026 with solid operating performance, backed by healthy growth in Nordic private and SME lines, strong margins across the segments, and a favourable claims experience despite a wintry start of the year.
Many have surely encountered situations where a stock, on a linear price chart, appears to be rocketing through the roof. Such a development can't be a sign of anything other than a bubble, can it?
On 1 October 2025, Sampo announced that Lars Kufall Beck, COO at If P&C, would take over as new Group CFO as of 1 April 2026 succeeding Knut Arne Alsaker.
Sampo reports its financial performance under four segments based on its operational business areas. In this blog series, we will introduce all our segments. Next up is Private UK.
Sampo Group delivered strong results in 2025, driven by broad-based growth momentum across private and SME lines and disciplined underwriting in a favourable claims environment.
Sampo Group continued its solid financial performance in January-September 2025, driven by positive momentum across private and SME lines, and strong underwriting performance in a favourable claims environment.
Investors can determine how expensive or cheap a stock is relative to competitors or other available investments by using standardized metrics that enable apples-to-apples comparisons. These metrics are widely used by equity analysts and investors for investment screening and peer benchmarking, providing a starting point for identifying differences in pricing that later could be evaluated by the investor/analyst to determine whether a company is undervalued or overvalued. By standardizing a company's market value against its earnings, sales, assets, or cash flows, these ratios make it easier to compare businesses of different sizes and across industries.
Sampo reports its financial performance under four segments based on its
operational business areas: Private Nordic, Private UK, Nordic Commercial and
Nordic Industrial. In this blog series, we will introduce all our segments. First
up is Private Nordic.
Inderes' Playbook gives the reader a deep dive into Inderes' business model, culture, leadership, organization model and future vision. The newly released edition is the fourth since the original Playbook was first published in 2019.
Despite the stock market volatility of recent weeks, private investors' risk appetite does not seem to have wavered in the United States, and the dip is being bought by the truckload. Has the risk appetite of young investors changed permanently?
U.S. President Donald Trump is pressuring Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell to cut interest rates, even though the Fed is, by law, an independent entity free from political influence. Next year, Trump will get to appoint a new Fed chair when Powell's term ends. A central bank under the president’s thumb would not restore the market’s waning confidence in U.S. politics. One might ask: Is the U.S. “on the road to Zimbabwe”?
The return of an investment portfolio relative to an index is a simple but brutally honest measure of stock picking success. A similar measure, we believe, will also serve as a tool for assessing the quality and independence of equity research.
