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.
Years of hard-line exclusions of the defence industry kept many asset owners out of one of the strongest-performing sectors. Now, as Europe rearms, investors are reworking defence policies – cautiously and under intense scrutiny.
Engagement by Denmark’s AkademikerPension forced Dankse Bank to rethink financing fossil fuels. CIO Anders Schelde believes this represents a new frontier in institutional investor pressure on the fossil fuel industry that will work because financing oil and gas is not a core business for banks.
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