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AP1
Pension fund · Founded 2001 · Stockholms kommun, Sweden
Who AP1 is.
- Historical Background
- Första AP-fonden (AP1) was established in 2001, following a reform of the Swedish national pension system. The fund was created as one of five buffer funds within the redesigned public pension framework, tasked with managing a portion of the system's assets to ensure its long-term stability.
- Source of Capital
- AP1's capital is derived from Sweden's national pension system. The fund manages approximately 3-4% of the total assets within the Swedish pension system, serving as a buffer to help balance pension liabilities and payouts.
- Allocation Strategy
- The fund invests across a diversified range of asset classes, including public equities, fixed-income securities, real estate, infrastructure, private equity, and hedge funds. AP1 maintains a global investment mandate, allocating capital to opportunities worldwide. By law, a minimum of 20% of the fund's portfolio must be invested in fixed-income assets with high credit quality. The fund's strategic allocation targets 32% to equities, 23% to fixed income, and 45% to alternative investments.
The funds AP1 backs.
AP1 is a limited partner in 41 funds. 3 of them place in the Power Law Investor Ranking; those lead, best-ranked first.
How AP1’s fund book is spread.
The 41 funds AP1 backs, by where the manager is headquartered and how many funds that manager has raised.
Where those managers are based
By fund headquarters.
- Europe 2868%
- North America 1024%
- Rest of world 37%
Sweden 14 · United States 10 · United Kingdom 8 · Norway 2
How established those managers are
Managers grouped by how many funds they have raised — across the 30 of 41 with a fund history on record.
One of the Swedish AP funds.
AP1: closed January 2026 — assets moved to AP3 and AP4.
AP stands for Allmänna Pensionsfonden, Sweden's national pension fund. The numbered AP funds are the buffer of the state income pension: contributions from today's workers pay today's pensioners, and in years when contributions fall short, the AP funds cover the difference.
The first three fund boards were set up in 1960 alongside the ATP supplementary pension, restricted to fixed income. A fourth was added in 1974 to buy Swedish listed shares, and a sixth in 1996 to invest in unlisted companies — which is why AP6 is the private-equity specialist of the family. The 2001 pension reform rebuilt AP1–AP4 as four buffer funds with identical mandates, splitting SEK 554 billion equally between them. Several funds with one mandate is the point, not an accident: the buffer was split between independent managers to spread the system's risk and to set the funds in competition, so their results can be compared against each other.
On 1 January 2026 the five buffer funds became three: AP1 was closed and its assets were split between AP3 and AP4, and AP6 was merged into AP2, which may now hold up to half its assets in unlisted investments. Each fund's commitments are still recorded under the entity that made them, so all five appear in the LP ranking.
The companies AP1 backs directly.
AP1 holds 5 companies directly, separate from the funds it commits to as a limited partner.
Where AP1’s portfolio founders come from.
10 founders across the 5 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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Sweden8
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Netherlands2
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Lund University2
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Brown University1
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Carnegie Mellon University1
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CentraleSupélec - Paris-Saclay University1
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Harvard Business School1
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JMK1
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KTH Royal Institute of Technology1
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Polytechnic University of Turin1
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Stockholm University1
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Udens College1
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Utrecht University2
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Boer & Croon1
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Booz Allen Hamilton1
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Cee Services (Consultant)1
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Electrolux1
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Kræftens Bekæmpelse1
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Kreftforeningen1
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Luzac Lyceum Hilversum1
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Mogul1
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Nanostim1
Other LPs.
Other pension funds in the Power Law LP ranking, closest to AP1 by combined power-law score — Europe first, then the nearest worldwide.