Industriens seeks more in renewables
Fresh off a windfall from green-energy assets in Asia, Denmark’s $26.9 billion Industriens Pension is looking to employ the model in Africa and Latin America, where it has a track record.
Fresh off a windfall from green-energy assets in Asia, Denmark’s $26.9 billion Industriens Pension is looking to employ the model in Africa and Latin America, where it has a track record.
Despite upturns in equity and bond prices sending 2012 returns into double digits at many large Danish funds, it appears that successfully implementing infrastructure initiatives remains the holy grail of Danish institutional investing. Instead of merely basking in 12.9-per-cent annual returns, Industriens Pension, for instance, used its 2012 results announcement to make a commitment to
The DKK200-billion ($35-billion) Danish medical professionals pension fund grouping, PKA, wants its government to help satisfy its appetite for investing in major infrastructure projects. Frank Jensen, an analyst on its asset strategy team, says PKA “is eager to get started” on sealing public-private partnerships with the Danish government, but its plans “have not come as
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