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Inside the year-and-a-half-long review into ATP’s complicated portfolio

Inside the year-and-a-half-long review into ATP’s complicated portfolio

Danish pension giant Arbejdsmarkedets Tillægspension (ATP) has been urged to cull risk, establish formal portfolio benchmarks and reduce private markets exposures, according to an external review committee which handed down a 536-page report into the fund’s investment operations after an 18-month review. Following the release of the report by the board this week, co-author of the review Andrew Ang unpacks the findings with Top1000funds.com.

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