Since 1997, pension funds around the world have increased their exposure to alternative investments to 24 percent from just 4 percent.
This extent of this asset allocation shift was one the key messages from Peter Beske Nielsen in his presentation "Similar Assets, Different Risks" to the CFA Society Denmark's annual conference.
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