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Published: 23 March, 2007
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Sampension, the €12bn Danish pension fund management company, has poached Henrik Olejasz Larsen from ATP, the Danish labour market pension fund, to become its new chief investment officer. Mr Larsen was previously chief risk officer at ATP.
Helle Holm Madsen, chief operating officer at ATP, has been temporarily appointed to take over from Mr Larsen. Sampension manages three Danish pension funds: KP, the local government’s fund, StK:Pension, the government employees’ pension fund and Grafisk Pension, the graphical industries’ pension fund.
- Pernilla Klein, former head of corporate governance at the Swedish buffer fund AP 3, has joined the communication firm Kreab. At Kreab, Ms Klein will be responsible for strategic corporate communications. AP 3 has not replaced Ms Klein, but has assigned Peter Lundkvist, senior strategist for asset allocation, to take on responsibility for corporate governance. Ms Klein was also head of communications and her other responsibilities will be taken over by Hans Lindberg, chief strategy officer and Christina Kusoffsky Hillesoy, communications manager and head of SRI.
- The Norwegian ministry of finance has added two new senior members of staff to its asset management department with the appointments of Tom Fearnley and Harald Johansen as investment directors. Mr Fearnley joins from Norges Bank, where he worked as senior adviser on investment strategy. Mr Johansen joins from Norges Bank Investment Management. The asset management department is responsible for the supervision of the Government Pension Fund and was set up in 2006 to manage the growth of the fund. It is made up of 10 senior officials headed by director general Martin Skancke.
- John Howchin, former vice president of GES Investment Services, has left the firm for a position as senior analyst at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM). GES has in turn appointed Fredric Nyström, former client manager, as marketing director.
NBIM has responsibility for investing the international assets of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund and Mr Howchin is to assume responsibility for environmental analysis within the corporate governance team. He joined GES in 2002 and was appointed vice president for international operations in 2006.
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