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Investor Profile

Sampension: Why there are many reasons to be optimistic

Now is not the time to reduce risk, argues Henrik Olejasz Larsen, chief investment officer of Sampension, Denmark’s $50 billion pension fund for public and private sector employees. In an interview with Top1000funds.com, he says corporate profits have not deteriorated, and although the market has been tested from multiple directions, the underlying optimism driving equities is strong enough to overrule the negative impact of geopolitical risk.

Sarah Rundell

June 25, 2026

Technology

How technology plays a central role in CPP’s evolving strategy

Top1000funds.com double clicks on CPP Investments' technology strategy exploring a new user-centric focus on modular design so technology can evolve alongside investments; how in the not too distant future teams will include “non human” intelligence; and how to answer the question of value added from technology deployment.

Amanda White

September 09, 2024

Sustainability Harvard - September 2022

ESG now needs to prove its worth, argues ESG champion and historian

Sustainable investment needs to be defended from external attack as questions are raised about how much change it is actually achieving argues David Wood, director of the Initiative for Responsible Investment at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Jack Smith

October 25, 2022

Global Pension Transparency Benchmark

Benchmark ranks pension funds on disclosure transparency

The Global Pension Transparency Benchmark, a collaboration between conexust1f.flywheelstaging.com and Toronto-based CEM Benchmarking, has revealed the need for serious improvement in pension transparency across the globe. Check out how funds ranked across 15 different countries on transparency of governance, performance, cost and responsible investing.

Amanda White

August 26, 2021

Risk

Size matters: diversity across factors

The size factor has recently come under attack from smart beta providers because its performance has lagged behind other factors. A common recommendation is to remove size from the factor menu, to give more weight to factors with better performance. But due to its low correlation with other factors, size offers substantial diversification benefits.

Mikheil Esakia, Felix Goltz, Ben Luyten and Marcel Sibbe

July 17, 2019

Fees

Price war hitting active fees, too

Fee compression is here to stay. Only the few active managers that have met their benchmarks over the past few years have been immune. But make no mistake, asset owners will be reviewing all strategies for their value and fee models will continue to evolve.

Amin Rajan

November 26, 2018

Investor Profile

Sampension: Why there are many reasons to be optimistic

Technology

How technology plays a central role in CPP’s evolving strategy

Sustainability Harvard - September 2022

ESG now needs to prove its worth, argues ESG champion and historian

Global Pension Transparency Benchmark

Benchmark ranks pension funds on disclosure transparency

Risk

Size matters: diversity across factors

Fees

Price war hitting active fees, too

California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS)

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