{"id":422418,"date":"2026-01-20T23:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422418\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T23:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:41:10","slug":"danish-pension-fund-to-ditch-u-s-treasuries-says-greenland-not-the-cause-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422418\/","title":{"rendered":"Danish pension fund to ditch U.S. Treasuries, says Greenland not the cause &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danish pension fund AkademikerPension said on Tuesday it would sell off its holding of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/u.s.-treasuries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Treasuries<\/a>, worth some US$100 million, by the end of this month, blaming weak U.S. government finances.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AkademikerPension said the decision was not intended as a political statement linked to the rift between <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/denmark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denmark<\/a> and the United States over <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/greenland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greenland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/money123.jpg\" alt=\"Get expert insights, Q&amp;A on markets, housing, inflation, and personal finance information delivered to you every Saturday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet weekly money news<\/p>\n<p>Get expert insights, Q&amp;A on markets, housing, inflation, and personal finance information delivered to you every Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision is rooted in the poor U.S. government finances, which make us think that we need to make an effort to find an alternative way of conducting our liquidity and risk management,\u201d Investment Director Anders Schelde said in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThus, it is not directly related to the ongoing rift between the U.S. and Europe, but of course that didn\u2019t make it more difficult to take the decision,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>AkademikerPension has in total 164 billion\u00a0Danish\u00a0crowns ($25.74 billion) under management, it said on its website.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on World<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danish pension fund AkademikerPension said on Tuesday it would sell off its holding of U.S. Treasuries, worth some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,8267,133,134,131,132,176931,2845,176932,3275],"class_list":{"0":"post-422418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-denmark","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-money","14":"tag-personal-finance","15":"tag-personalfinance","16":"tag-u-s-debt","17":"tag-u-s-news","18":"tag-u-s-treasuries","19":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}