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Sampension

Sampension is Denmark’s third largest pension manager. Sampension is a customer-owned community with around 300,000 customers who pay in more than DKK 8 billion annually. Sampension’s team includes approximately 300 employees and offer both labour market and company pensions

Country

Denmark

AUM ($B)

$46

Performance

4.9

Chief Executive

Hasse Jørgensen

Chief Investment Officer

Henrik Olejasz Larsen

Chair

Jørn Pedersen

Asset allocation

Asset Allocation is: Bonds etc. including interest rate hedging (35.4%), Listed Equities (25.3%), Real Estate, Land & Infrastructure (11.4%), Private Equity (4.7%), Commodities and Forestry (2.9%), Bonds etc. subject to credit risk (11.1%), Global macro funds (1.7%)

35.4% Bonds etc, including interest rate hedging

25.3% Listed equities

11.4% Real estate, land and infrastructure

11.1% Bonds etc. subject to credit risk

7.9% Inflation hedging

4.7% Private equity

2.9% Commodities and forestry

1.7% Global macro funds

Website

Global Pension Transparency Benchmark country system description

Asset allocation as of December 31, 2020. All information is as per the most recent annual report or other publicly available data via the fund's website

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