Sparinvest has put a brand-new strategy in place to see it through the next four years. By the end of 2022, it must have gathered in more than DKK 60 billion in extra assets under management -- and in the future, most of its business growth is to come from institutional investors. CEO Jørgen Søgaard-Andersen tells AMWatch's siter site, FinansWatch, all about the plan.
Globally, pension funds have boosted their alternatives exposure sixfold in a relatively short span of time. However, the risk management tools and investment professionals that the funds currently have in place might not be suitable for this continuous growth in illiquid assets, one of Blackrock's top people argued at the CFA Society Denmark's annual conference.
Labor-market pensions firm Pensiondanmark is recruiting a former Danish central bank economist and credit specialist. His task is to oversee the company's growing portfolio of credit investments, its head of credit tells AMWatch.
The investment chief at Denmark’s AP Pension favors an active investment strategy. Why? Firstly, according to CIO Ralf Magnussen, scientific surveys argue the approach makes sense for a pension fund of AP Pension’s size. And secondly, it boosts returns.
A Finnish private-sector pension firm with about EUR 45 billion ($53 billion) of assets may shift more money into global macro investments as it sours on credit.
Last December's sudden departure of three top team members has not defeated the private equity and infrastructure funds arm of Danish pensions provider PKA. Quite the opposite, says Nishandan Ganesalingam, who been co-leading PKA AIP Private Funds since the management upheaval.
The alternative investment arm of Denmark's PKA is currently deploying its USD 3 billion (EUR 2.57 billion) three-year program focused on private equity funds and co-investments. But given the vast choices out there, how does the team select private equity fund managers?
Danish pension provider Sampension says it plans to apply the recommendations of Michael Bloomberg's task force to assess the carbon footprint of its investments.
The Chief Executive of Sweden's Skandia explans why the insurer and pension manager is exiting operations in Norway and Denmark.
