Industriens, the DKK 217 billion ($30.6 billion) Danish pension fund, is using advanced technology and exploring AI models to bring sweeping advantages to its risk management processes. Julia Sommer Legaard, investment risk and data manager at the fund for the last year, explains the process behind the innovation.
The $77 billion Denmark pension fund PFA has turned to direct investment for its alternatives, taking stakes with varying levels of risk in areas such as telecommunications and 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.
The ratio of working years to retirement years should be at least 2 to 1 and raising the pension age is a universal fix for strained systems, the author of Mercer’s Global Pension Index says.
SEB has restructured its risk factor portfolio and raised the allocation to senior secure loans within its large alternatives portfolio. The changes address rising global uncertainty.
Alternatives the focus for Danish fund PFA, under the guidance of Henrik Nohr Poulsen who joins from Industriens Pension.
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