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Swedish $370bn home-loan market gets ‘mortgage fund’

Bloomberg As investors wonder whether Sweden’s housing market is headed for a correction, the country’s first mortgage fund is about to enter the $370 billion Swedish home-loan industry. Stabelo plans to pool capital from Swedish institutional investors in exchange for fixed-income securities. That money will then be lent to home buyers. The fund starts offering its products this week and ...

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Prosecutors raid Volkswagen over labour chief’s pay

Bloomberg German prosecutors raided Volkswagen AG’s headquarters in an investigation of whether the carmaker’s leadership agreed to excessive payments to its top labour representative. The search is part of a probe into remuneration of works council chief Bernd Osterloh, a Volkswagen spokesman said, declining to provide further details. Sascha Rueegg, a spokesman for prosecutors in Braunschweig, the legal administrative center ...

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Nike knocked by unions ‘tax avoidance’ strategies

Bloomberg Nike Inc., which was cited in the so-called Paradise Papers for funneling billions of dollars into offshore tax havens, is now facing a push by organised labour to stop the practice. The AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 unions that represent 12.5 million workers, said it sent a shareholder proposal to the company. The document asks the world’s largest sports ...

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