How AkademikerPension excludes China state assets
The Danish retirement fund for academics has long screened out companies and countries from its portfolio, but has further stepped up its focus on ESG issues in the past few years.
Amid the much-touted focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues these days, some investors – like Denmark’s pension scheme for the academic sector – adhere to their principles rather more strictly than others.
The DKr135 billion($21.83 billion) fund hit the headlines in September for banning assets linked to mainland China from its portfolio because of Beijing’s human rights violations in Hong Kong, Xinjiang province and elsewhere. But AkademikerPension has been vo…
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