Denmark

DENMARK - Many of Denmark's largest pension funds are increasing their infrastructure allocations or investing for the first time as the asset class becomes an important part of their portfolios, industry experts have claimed.

DENMARK - Steen Svendsen, managing director of Schroders Investment Management Denmark, has joined private equity group SVG Capital as a consultant.

DENMARK - The DKK398.6bn (e53.4bn) ATP recorded half year profits of 4.5bn, despite changing interest rates causing a drop in both assets and liabilities.

DENMARK - Pension scheme provider PFA Pension has sold 37 residential properties to Danish real estate company CenterPlan and RREEF, the real estate asset management arm of Deutsche Bank.

DENMARK - Future governments should remove the early retirement scheme, or at least adjust the retirement age in line with a longevity indexation formula, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has advised.

DENMARK - TDC president Henning Dyremose has defended majority stakeholder NTC's move to force minority shareholders in the telecommunications company to sell as legal, after ATP announced plans to sue NTC.

DENMARK - Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), the asset management arm of Lloyds TSB Group, has registered its mutual fund range in Denmark, geared towards targeting institutional investors.

DENMARK - F&C has confirmed it has lost a e174m emerging market equity mandate with the e48.4bn Danish pension fund ATP.

DENMARK - The Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (pictured) has announced that the government will increase the current retirement age in order to deal with the country's aging population and growing life expectancy.

DENMARK - Mercer Human Resource Consulting is to target Denmark's second pillar labour market pension funds in a new business venture which will see the firm expand beyond its current service offering in the private market.