After strengthening its Nordic position last year by acquiring a Finnish asset manager, Danske Capital is optimistic about the future, but is also well aware of its limitations in the market. Caroline Liinanki speaks to CEO Niels-Ulrik Mousten about plans for the future

Six heads of investment, including ATP’s Bjarne Graven Larsen, at some of the largest pension schemes across Europe were asked what challenges they foresaw in pension asset management over the next decade, both generally and in relation to their own organisation

Norway’s government pension fund – foreign, formerly the petroleum fund, has just reported a 2005 return against benchmark of 1.1 per cent and now has assets of nearly NKr1,400bn (€175bn). Liam Kennedy spoke with Knut Kjær, executive director at Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the fund, about internal restructuring aimed at separating alpha and beta returns, and about keeping costs within benchmark while selecting the best possible alpha generators