All Diary of An Investor articles
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FeaturesDiary of an Investor: What’s up with research costs?
In fixed income, no-one has ever really known how the research impacts on investment costs
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FeaturesDiary of an Investor: Making an impact
We at Wasserdicht like to think that our company has a positive impact around the world as a pump and flood protection equipment multinational
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FeaturesDiary of an Investor: Imperfect foresight
‘Administration!’ declares Geert, our head of investment research one morning. ‘Not a sexy subject.’
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FeaturesDiary Of An Investor: Paradise lost
As our co-investment partners PensionKøbenhavn found recently, unexpected risks can turn round and bite you
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FeaturesDiary of an investor: A free lunch, or two
In common with many others, Wasserdicht’s international pension plans have dispensed with most of their traditional active equity allocations over the years
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Diary of an Investor: A weak link
As an investment professional I am used to traditional risk categories like equities, interest rates, inflation and the like. Now it seems we will have to add information security risk to that list
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Diary of an Investor: Who bears the cost?
Sometimes I look back fondly on the simpler good old days.
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Diary of an Investor: The price of everything
We Dutch are well known for keeping an eye on the price of things and for our frugal approach to life. Increasingly, this applies to pension funds
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Diary of an Investor: Looking the part
We at Wasserdicht Pension Funds have been using BIG Asset Management for what seems like an eternity. I have learned two things about BIG over the years
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Diary of an Investor: Reading the coffee grains
Can you guess the topic of discussion of the latest Wasserdicht global investment committee? You probably can: it was political risk
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Diary of an Investor: An independent soul
Rolf, our chairman of trustees is having a reception to mark his 30 years working for Wasserdicht. An engineer by profession, he was worked for us all over the world and has many stories to tell
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Diary of an Investor: Political perils
Last month I met with my old friend Thijs, who is CIO of a large UK corporate pension scheme, working in a small investment office in the UK with an enlightened CEO
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Diary of an Investor: Too much information
Our investment committee members had quite a few questions at the final meeting of 2016. Brexit, Trump, the equities rally, long-bond yields, emerging markets: the trustees kept the topics coming thick and fast
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Diary of an Investor: Diversity counts
Recently we had to admit that the trustee board of the Wasserdicht Dutch pension fund isn’t very diverse. Of course, we fulfil the requirement to have one female trustee and one under the age of 40 and have for some time
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Diary of an Investor: War stories
Last month I joined our co-operation partners at PensionKøbenhavn in Copenhagen for a private round table of institutional investors discussing real assets
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Diary of an Investor: At the high table
Recently, I was invited to join a network of financial academics as a ‘practice adviser’, which means I speak to them regularly about the challenges our pension fund faces and what we are doing in the investment portfolio.
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Diary of an Investor: Project Waffle
For some months now, the powers that be here at Wasserdicht headquarters have been looking at moving our Dutch pension fund over the border to Belgium
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Diary of an Investor: What chain?
Last year, if anyone had mentioned blockchain my first associations would have been Bitcoin, the dark web and cybercrime. But such new concepts have a habit of shifting shape
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Diary of an Investor: It’s the way you say it
Wasserdicht’s Dutch pension fund is looking to improve the way it communicates with members. Or as Rolf, our chairman of trustees, puts it, the way we talk about bad news
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Diary of an Investor: Stretch and flex with credit
Years ago, people used to claim that the equity-risk premium was the most important metric in a pension fund’s long-term investment plans
