News
Read the press releases from PensionDanmark.
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30 November 2012
PensionDanmark named Best European Pension Fund
Thursday evening PensionDanmark was named pension fund of the year in Denmark – and Europe.
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11 October 2012
PensionDanmark to invest 800 million EUR in new infrastructure fund
PensionDanmark has taken the initiative to establish a new infrastructure fund managed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, a newly established team of former employees from Dong Energy. PensionDanmark will be the only investor in the new fund, and has made a EUR 800 million investment commitment, which over the coming 3 to 4 years will be invested in infrastructure in Europe and North America.
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29 June 2012
DKK 250 million from PensionDanmark for new Danish export order
Yet another Danish export order has been secured thanks to PensionDanmark's partnership with EKF (Denmark's Export Credit Agency). The order is for the export of 72 Vestas wind turbines for an offshore wind farm project in Belgium, Northwind, for which the Danish company Bladt Industries is another supplier of equipment and services. PensionDanmark contributes funding of DKK 260 million.
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27 June 2012
PensionDanmark invests 750 million USD in bank loans
PensionDanmark has today entered into an agreement with J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPM), where JPM on behalf of PensionDanmark will acquire and manage a portfolio of senior secured infrastructure loans in Europe, the United States and Canada. The portfolio will consist of secondary loans acquired from a number of project finance banks. The size of the mandate is 750 million USD, which is expected to be invested within the next 12 months. The first transaction, in which PensionDanmark buys a portfolio from Bank of Ireland consisting of UK Infrastructure Project Finance loans with total commitments of approximately 350 million USD at a price of around 83% of the principal, has already been closed.