AO talk manager selection and data gap
Discussing how they integrate sustainability across their portfolios investors at New York State Common Fund, PKA, and TCorp, highlight the importance of manager selection and the challenge of the data gap.
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New investment-led net zero framework
More than 70 investors have collaborated to produce a framework for an investment strategy led approach to decarbonising portfolios and maximising efforts to achieve net zero emissions globally by 2050. The IIGCC, which developed the framework, is seeking consultation.
Denmark’s PKA goes for 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.
Denmark’s PKA profits on alternatives
In one of the biggest allocations among the fund’s Danish and European peers, PKA has grown its alternatives portfolio to account for 25 per cent of assets under management.
Learning from Danish funds’ stable alternative
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
PKA seeks to satisfy its infrastructure hunger
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
Sustainability Digital – Sept 2020