Storägarna as storsålt in Fingerprint Cards – Business

the Second half of 2016 was kursmässigt weak for the Fingerprint Cards, and december was the most turbulent month. The company’s profit warning for the fourth quarter was a strong contribution to the share during the julmånaden fell by over 20 per cent.

Among the owners reduced their holdings of Fingerprint Cards in december, they were both of the pension funds Second Swedish national pension fund and Third Swedish national pension fund. It shows a review News made in Euroclear.

the Second AP fund, as well as Fingerprint Cards, based in Gothenburg, sweden, was at the end of June 2016, one of the Fingerprint Cards, are major shareholders with a holding of close to 4.5 million shares. The value of the shares was over 360 million. The latest of ägardatatjänsten Holdings published, the figure is 3.7 million shares as of the last day of november.

Then, the investment is greatly reduced: according to the Fingerprints register, reconciled by Euroclear on 30 december and the subsequent read of the us Direct, had the Second AP fund’s holdings then declined to around 1.7 million shares. Reduction means, in combination with declining value to the value of the entry has shrunk to a bit over 100 million.

Even the Third AP-fund appears in the kursmässigt gloomy half of the year have done away with most of their Fingerprintaktier. The fund’s holdings at the end of June was just over 2.8 million shares, worth nearly 230 million.

At new year had the fund’s ownership in biometribolaget according to the share register has been reduced to a modest 23.486 shares. It is less than a tenth of the last task in the Holdings: 328.268 shares.

the News agency Directly under the on Tuesday, speaking with the AP-funds in question, but both refer to their half-yearly financial statements and declines to comment on the latest omdispositionerna.

In september, in connection with a innehavsminskning in the Fingerprint, declined the Second AP fund’s director of communications, Ulrika Danielson to comment on whether it then moved on the sale or lending of shares.

She mentioned, however, as a general indication, to the Other AP-funds according to their policy “similar to other operators in the long-term asset management engages in securities lending” and are allowed to lend up to 90 per cent of the holdings.