Peter Branner new Head of SEB Investment Manage...

SEB has recruited Peter Branner as new Head of SEB Investment
Management. Branner will continue to develop the SEB mutual funds
offering and build on the bank's leading position within alternative
investments.


Fredrik Boheman, head of Wealth Management at SEB, says: "The asset
management business faces great opportunities and challenges, and I
am very glad that Peter, with his long international experience from
our industry,  will lead the fund management development within
SEB.".

Peter Branner joins from Fortis in London where he held a position as
Chief Investment Officer. Prior to that he was CIO/Managing Director
at IKANO Fund Management in Luxembourg, having previously held other
positions within the IKANO Group in the Netherlands, Denmark and the
UK. During the currency crisis in the early 90s, Peter Branner was
head of Trading at GiroBank in Copenhagen, where he began his career
in 1987.





SEB is a North European financial group serving some 400,000
corporate customers and institutions and five million private
individuals. SEB offers universal banking services in Sweden, Germany
and the Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It also has
local presence in the other Nordic countries, Poland, Ukraine and
Russia and a global presence through its international network in
another ten countries. On 30 June 2008, the Group's total assets
amounted to SEK 2,304bn (EUR 244 bn) while its assets under
management totalled SEK 1,295bn (EUR 137 bn). The Group has about
22,000 employees. Read more about SEB at www.sebgroup.com.
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