The Plover and the Crocodile: Pensam's win-win story with TIAA
When Danish pension fund Pensam hired Carsten Grøhn in 2015, his assignment was clear: Re-think our private equity strategy to give us more control and better returns. In response, Grøhn turned Pensam into an Egyptian plover.

You've seen it on a nature documentary the tiny Egyptian plover implausibly cleaning the teeth of crocodiles swimming in the Nile. In a win-win situation, the bird feeds and the crocodile's mouth stays healthy.
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