IPE's Netherlands Coverage – Page 152
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Dutch pension funds remain ‘vulnerable’
[13:00 CET 27-11] NETHERLANDS – The Dutch pensions supervisor, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), has reported in its November financial stability report that the financial situation of pension funds remains vulnerable, writes Mariska van der Westen for our Dutch sister publication IPN. The DNB says that funds have not yet recovered, ...
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BPF Bouw restores indexation
[15:30 CET 24-11] NETHERLANDS - The recovery of BPF Bouw, the €26bn pension fund for the Dutch building industry, has been so successful this year that it is now planning to grant all participants indexation of 1.45% from next year.
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PNO Media cover ratio edges upwards
[15:00 CET 23-11] NETHERLANDS - The €2.8bn pension fund PNO Media saw its cover ratio rise to 100.9% during the third quarter of this year, thanks to a 10.1% return on investments.
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NewsABP's improved funding prompts indexation payout
[16:45 CET 16-11] NETHERLANDS - The €180bn civil service scheme ABP will grant its participants indexation of 0.45% in 2010, as its funding ratio has recovered to the minimum required level of 105%.
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TNO fund returns 7.5%
[16:45 CET 06-11] NETHERLANDS - The €1.9bn pension fund of TNO, the institute for applied technical research, saw its investments return 7.5% during the third quarter, taking its total return to 9% this year.
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Average Dutch cover ratio drops to 108%
[14:30 CET 04-11] NETHERLANDS - The average cover ratio of Dutch pension funds decreased two percentage points to 108% during October, according to Hewitt Associates.
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Super de Boer to lend €10m to its pension scheme
[14:30 CET 03-11] NETHERLANDS - Supermarket chain Super de Boer is lending its ailing pension fund €10m to resolve a dispute with pension officials about the scheme’s recovery plan.
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Levensloop take-up stabilises at 10%
[13:30 CET 03-11] NETHERLANDS – Take-up of the Dutch tax-friendly life course or ‘levensloop’ savings scheme has stabilised as approximately 10% of workers were members of schemes in 2008, the Dutch Association of Insurers (VvV) has claimed.
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Akzo Nobel scheme returns 9.4%
[16:15 CET 02-11] NETHERLANDS - The €3.9bn pension fund of paints giant Akzo Nobel returned 9.4% on investments during the third quarter of 2009, raising its cover ratio to 110%.
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Philips' Dutch pensions funding recovers to 126%
[14:00 CEST 30-10] NETHERLANDS - The €13.4bn Dutch pension fund of electronics giant Philips returned 7.2% on its investments at the end of the third quarter 2009 .
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APG's Sluimers: ‘too sombre’
[11:45 CEST 23-10] NETHERLANDS - Dick Sluimers, CEO of the Dutch pension provider APG, has challenged advice that the Dutch pension sector must reduce its return assumptions, reports our Dutch sister publication IPN. Sluimers was responding to the majority advice of the Don Commission on pensions at the end of ...
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Dutch pension giants report strong recovery
[16:00 CEST 22-10] NETHERLANDS - Recovering equity markets and well-performing investments in listed property and high-yield bonds were the main contributors to a strong 8% recovery during the third quarter for pension funds PfZW, PMT and PME.
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VB to tackle pension cost misconceptions
[16:00 CEST 21-10] NETHERLANDS – VB, the representative body for Dutch industry-wide pension funds, said it will step up its efforts to explain the true value of collective pension arrangements after a survey revealed consumers think costs are much higher than in reality.
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DNB rejects ANWB scheme’s recovery plan
[16:15 CEST 19-10] NETHERLANDS - Pensions regulator De Nederlandsche Bank has rejected a fourth recovery plan from the €640m pension fund of motorists’ lobbying organisation ANWB.
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Netherlands tops Mercer poll of pension regimes
[16:15 CEST 15-10] GLOBAL - The Netherlands has come out top in a new global index rating pension systems which assesses the adequacy, sustainability and integrity of regimes, closely followed by Australia and then Sweden.
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Dutch Co-op cover ratio rises by a third
[11:00 CEST 14-10] NETHERLANDS – The €141m Dutch Co-op Pension Scheme has seen its solvency ratio rise to 146% - an increase of 33% from its nadir at the end of February this year at 113%.
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PGGM: No ordinary fiduciary manager
When PGGM was spun off from the industry-wide healthcare scheme PFZW in January of 2008, a new giant fiduciary manager seemed to enter the Dutch market. But although PGGM offers ‘integrated asset management’, the organisation has shunned the fiduciary management label. PGGM Asset Management CEO, Else Bos, explains why to Mariska van der Westen
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Fiduciary management moves into a new phase
Miranda Schoutsen spoke to five providers about changes in fiduciary services, re-orientation and a changing of the guards
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Investing in banks: brilliant or bunk?
Pension schemes should invest €30bn worth of pension money in illiquid bank assets,according to a recent proposal presented to the Dutch finance minister, Wouter Bos. A great idea? Pension luminaries Jean Frijns and Dick de Beus believe it is, and explained their views to Mariska van der Westen
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Dutch funds can maintain expectations - for now
[15:50 CEST 28-09] NETHERLANDS - Piet Hein Donner, minister for Social Affairs and Employment in the Netherlands, has decided that Dutch pension funds can continue to use the same maximum expected returns on investments as they have used in the past three years to calculate the level of pension contributions ...
