Denmark

DENMARK - Danish pension fund ATP has set up a venture fund to target domestic and Nordic IT and telecommunications companies.

DENMARK - The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority plans to release mortality benchmarks in the coming days which will be used to help calculate pension liabilities.

NETHERLANDS - Pension funds failing to meet coverage ratio requirements will be able to postpone the proposed premium increase until 2012, the Dutch central bank said.

DENMARK - Danish pension provider ATP recorded a DKK17.4bn ($3.2bn) profit in the nine months to September.

DENMARK - Danish pension fund managers ATP and LD could be allowed to offer banking, mortgage and insurance products under proposals put forward by the government yesterday.

DENMARK - A consortium consisting of pension funds ATP and PFA Pension and insurance companies Folksam and CPDyvig has agreed to acquire FIH Erhvervsbank for DKK5bn ($879m).

UK/DENMARK - Global Pensions editor Raquel Pichardo-Allison speaks to Morten Nilsson, head of ATP's international operations about the Danish pension fund manager's UK expansion plans.

DENMARK - The Danish government wants to set up a DKK5bn ($880m) venture capital pool with the country's pension funds to invest in small and medium sized domestic businesses.

DENMARK - Dutch pension manager ATP has been appointed administrator to KL, a federation of 98 Danish municipalities, by the ministry of finance.

DENMARK - Danish fund manager ATP posted a DKK10.5bn (US$1.2bn) profit on its investments and hedging activities in the first quarter, with a large chunk of investment returns coming from domestic equities.