The Cent­ral Bank of Ice­land con­duc­ted a sur­vey of mar­ket agents’ ex­pect­a­tions over the period from 5 through 7 May 2025. A total of 39 agents in the bond mar­ket, in­clud­ing banks, pen­sion funds, mu­tual and in­vest­ment funds, se­cur­it­ies brokers, li­censed as­set man­age­ment firms, and in­sur­ance firms were in­vited to par­ti­cip­ate. Re­sponses were re­ceived from 25 mar­ket par­ti­cipants, giv­ing a re­sponse ra­tio of 64%.

In co-­op­er­a­tion with the Cen­ter for In­ter­na­tional Mac­roe­co­nom­ics at North­west­ern Uni­versity, the Cent­ral Bank of Ice­land will con­vene the Reyk­javík Eco­nomic Con­fer­ence on 8-9 May 2025.

As­sets of pen­sion funds amoun­ted to 8,203.6 b.kr. at the end of Novem­ber, hav­ing in­creased by 162.8 b.kr. between months.

The IM­F‘s an­nual Art­icle IV re­port on the Icelandic eco­nomy was pub­lished today. Reg­u­lar re­ports on the status and pro­spects of the eco­nom­ies of IMF mem­ber coun­tries are is­sued on the basis of Art­icle IV of the IM­F‘s Art­icles of Agree­ment. A mis­sion from the IMF vis­ited Ice­land last May for dis­cus­sions with the Icelandic au­thor­it­ies and other stake­hold­ers.