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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.

Country

Denmark

AUM ($B, AS AT DATE OF ASSET ALLOCATION)

$60

Performance (%, 1YR)

-12.1

Chief Executive

Hasse Jørgensen

Chief Investment Officer

Henrik Olejasz Larsen

Chair

Jens Ejner

Asset allocation

31.3% Bonds

23.9% Listed Equities

14% Real Estate, Land and Infrastructure

12% High Yield Bonds

9.3% Inflation Hedging

5.3% Private Equity

2.4% Commodities and Forestry

1.8% Global Macro Funds

Website

View the annual report

Global Pension Transparency Benchmark country system description

Asset allocation as of December 31, 2022. All information is as per the most recent annual report or other publicly available data via the fund's website

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