PKA

Sustainability Digital – Sept 2020

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.

Sarah RundellSeptember 24, 2020

Sustainability Digital – Sept 2020

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.

Amanda WhiteAugust 6, 2020

Asset Allocation

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.

Sarah RundellApril 9, 2018

Asset Allocation

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.

Sarah RundellAugust 17, 2016

Asset Classes

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 […]

Dan BillinghamMarch 27, 2013

Investor Profile

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 […]

Dan BillinghamMarch 15, 2013