SEB Enskilda Strengthens Equity Sales

SEB Enskilda Equities is the leading brokerage firm for Nordic
equities. Following the recent announcement of new recruitments
within Equity research, SEB today announces further key appointments
within Equity Sales. Jonas Ridell is named head of global sales,
Johan Nyquist becomes head of sales Stockholm while Eggert Mörling
and Carl Johan (Calle) Frisell join SEB Enskilda equity sales
Stockholm.


Jonas Ridell and Johan Nyquist have worked within Nordic equity sales
and trading at SEB Enskilda since 1999 and 1998 respectively. Ridell
joined SEB Enskilda from Svenska Handelsbanken where he spent nine
years within Nordic equities. Nyquist was previously at Alfred Berg
and United Securities and has worked within equity brokerage since
1986.

Eggert Mörling has more than 15 years experience within equities
sales, most recently at Carnegie and earlier at Julius Baer, Morgan
Stanley and Deutsche Bank, both in Sweden and in London. Calle
Frisell joins from a position in equity sales at Svenska
Handelsbanken, having joined in 2004 from Hagströmer & Qviberg where
he worked for ten years. Ridell, Nyquist, Mörling and Frisell will
take on their new positions during the autumn of 2009.

"I am very pleased to announce the appointments of Jonas Ridell,
Johan Nyquist, Calle Frisell and Eggert Mörling. We have an
outstanding team at SEB Enskilda and continue to develop our
franchise through a combination of internal promotions and external
recruitments. We are strengthening the team in terms of both trading
and research and underline our commitment to excellence within Nordic
equities "says Anders Johnsson, head of Trading and Capital Markets
at SEB.

Last week SEB announced two further recruitments within research.
Fredrik Carlsson most recently chief portfolio manager at the Second
Swedish National Pension Fund (AP 2), was named Head of Swedish
Equity research and Roland Jonsson, who has worked at SEB Enskilda
since 2005, was named head of Head of Scandinavian Equity Research.


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
major financial centers. On 30 June 2009, the Group's total assets
amounted to SEK 2,374bn (~EUR 220bn) while its assets under
management totalled SEK 1,267bn (~EUR 120bn).The Group has about
20,500 employees. Read more about SEB at www.sebgroup.com.
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For further information, please contact:
Anders Johnsson, Head of Trading and Capital Markets, [phone]
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Press contact: Elisabeth Lennhede, [phone],
[e-mail]


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