Denmark Investment and Pensions
The industry is pushing for broader market access and defence-investment frameworks. Simultaneously, defence investing is gaining traction among commercial pension players, signalling a potential strategic shift for the sector – one that blends return objectives with national and European resilience. The giant labour market fund ATP is facing scrutiny for underperformance and archaic guidelines.
Pension Funds in the Nordic region - Country Report
Nordic Region pension funds report 2025: ATP hits back at critics on risk structure
An academic discussion in a leading business journal has spilled over into a fully fledged debate with the fund’s leadership
TOP DANISH PENSION FUNDS 2025
Pension fund/entity | Assets (€’000)
- PFA Pension | 110,970,374
- Arbejdsmarkedets Tillaegspension (ATP) | 96,249,172
- Danica | 73,685,503
- Velliv, Pension & Livsforsikring | 49,373,193
- PensionDanmark | 49,002,123
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Greenland’s pension fund to boost home-turf investment
SISA Pension has increased domestic investments over the last few years but cites due diligence as barrier
Danish pension funds lose their appetite for US assets
Selling US Treasuries is not a ‘weapon’, says Copenhagen professor, but the bonds are viewed as having become too uncertain
PFA holds off after last year’s US bond exit over Trump
Sampension says poll shows nearly 70% of Danes fear global developments – with Trump in power – will hit their pension savings
AkademikerPension blames weak 2025 partly on in-house equities transition
Danish pension funds post returns of up to 14% for last year, with US dollar hedging having been crucial for success, according to consultant
Greenland’s only pension fund holds tight to strategy
‘We cannot navigate purely hypothetical scenarios that we have no chance of predicting the probability of,’ says SISA Pension CEO
TOP MANAGERS: NORDIC REGION INSTITUTIONAL ASSETS
Company | Assets (€m)
- SEB | 65,000*
- BlackRock | 61,541
- DNB Asset Management | 53,712**
- Nordea Asset Management | 52,442
- Storebrand Asset Management | 35,386***
- State Street Global Advisors | 29,768
- Nykredit Asset Management | 26,163
- Northern Trust Asset Management | 22,607
- Morgan Stanley Investment Management | 8,936*
- Amundi | 8,344
As at 30.9.3.23, *30.6.23, **15.11.23, ***10.6.22
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Denmark’s pension funds offer a template for an innovative defence investments play
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Greenland’s pension fund to boost home-turf investment
SISA Pension has increased domestic investments over the last few years but cites due diligence as barrier
Danish pension funds lose their appetite for US assets
Selling US Treasuries is not a ‘weapon’, says Copenhagen professor, but the bonds are viewed as having become too uncertain
PFA holds off after last year’s US bond exit over Trump
Sampension says poll shows nearly 70% of Danes fear global developments – with Trump in power – will hit their pension savings
AkademikerPension blames weak 2025 partly on in-house equities transition
Danish pension funds post returns of up to 14% for last year, with US dollar hedging having been crucial for success, according to consultant
Greenland’s only pension fund holds tight to strategy
‘We cannot navigate purely hypothetical scenarios that we have no chance of predicting the probability of,’ says SISA Pension CEO
AkademikerPension scolded by FSA for years of member data access failures
Danish pension fund plays down impact of IT problem on customers
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