Sampension

Sampension is Denmark’s third largest pension manager. Sampension is a customer-owned community with around 300,000 customers. Sampension’s team includes approximately 300 employees and offer both labour market and company pensions.

Denmark

$45

6.10

Hasse Jørgensen

Henrik Olejasz Larsen

25.7% Shares

30.4% Bonds etc. including interest rate hedging

11.9% Bonds etc. with credit risks

32% Other assets

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Asset allocation as of December 31, 2024. All information is as per the most recent annual report or other publicly available data via the fund's website

News

Danish investors shun the US but complete divestment ‘unlikely’

Danish pension investors are pulling capital out of US Treasuries amid tensions around Greenland, but a complete divestment from the world’s biggest market will hurt Danish funds’ performance and ultimately their pensioners more than the US government’s balance sheet.

Darcy Song

January 22, 2026

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Denmark’s Sampension: Liquid markets signpost illiquid dangers

Investors are piling into alternatives to escape low returns in liquid markets. But Henrik Olejasz Larsen, CIO of Denmark's Sampension, warns liquid markets signpost trouble ahead in alternatives, especially private equity.

Sarah Rundell

August 30, 2022

Asset Allocation

Denmark’s PKA goes for wind farms

The top-five Danish pension fund, PKA, has made a bigger push into alternatives than its peers, and a good chunk of that allocation comes from direct investment in offshore and onshore wind farms.

Sarah Rundell

April 09, 2018

Asset Allocation

Sampension seeks more control

As the Danish labour market pension fund puts more into alternatives and illiquid assets, it is also in talks with managers to increase its control over investment decisions and lower its costs.

Sarah Rundell

June 28, 2017

Uncategorised posts

PRI governance review to look at differential rights

The PRI has received many queries following the move by six Danish funds to abdicate as signatories over governance concerns. The association is holding a governance review that among other things will discuss the prospect of differential rights among signatories. When six Danish funds, with a combined $300 billion, decided to leave the PRI

Amanda White

March 12, 2014

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Europe, alternatives pay for Danish Sampension

The herd mentality of investors has been agonised over for as long as markets have been around. The dilemma is often raised of whether to participate in or shun market trends, but the DKK150-billion ($27-billion) Sampension has succeeded recently with a selective approach. It has fully embraced the institutional diversification movement by building a significant

Dan Billingham

September 25, 2013

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