Finnish government mulls stress tests

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FINLAND - The Finnish government is considering an industry proposal that would allow pension institutions to develop their own stress tests to measure short term investment risk as part of a wider review of the investment rules in Finland.

Sweden is in the midst of developing its new “traffic light” system of colour coded stress tests and Denmark introduced stress tests in 2001 after the crash in the equity markets. Finland’s Mini...

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