Iceland’s Almenni pension fund has announced that it has established a foreign securities portfolio.
The portfolio, which will invest exclusively in foreign assets, will invest in 70 per cent stocks and 30 per cent bonds.
The portfolio currently holds shares in over 5,000 companies and a diversified portfolio of bonds. As a result, there is a high degree of risk diversification, across industries, currencies and different economies, Almenni stated.
The foreign securities portfolio is the seventh return option that fund members can choose from.
“The portfolio is well suited for fund members who can tolerate fluctuations in returns and want to invest their supplementary pension savings entirely abroad, in a mixed portfolio of stocks and bonds,” the pension fund stated.
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