"Low-risk" investment generates biggest ever single-investment loss in pension sector history

According to an industry observer, PFA Pension's DKK 3bn (EUR 400m) loss on Nordic Aviation Capital is the largest loss generated by a single investment in the history of the Danish pension industry. 0.5 percent of PFA clients' total savings was lost in one blow.
Kasper Ahrndt Lorenzen, Group CIO, PFA | Photo: PR / PFA
Kasper Ahrndt Lorenzen, Group CIO, PFA | Photo: PR / PFA
by kristoffer brahm and nicolai raastrup, translated by catherine brett

Denmark's largest commercial pension company, PFA Pension, considered one of its investments to be a low-risk opportunity in a healthy company ­ but the case has proved itself to be the worst single investment in the pension company's 104-year history.

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