IPE's Netherlands Coverage – Page 156
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ABP returns 3.8% in "two-faced" 2007 (Update)
[14:00 CEST 20-05] NETHERLANDS – The €216.5bn ABP fund, the industry wide scheme for Dutch civil servants, praised 2007 as a good year, despite booking its lowest investment return in years.
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FeaturesPresenting the third supervisor
The Dutch pensions industry is already monitored by the Dutch Central Bank, DNB, and the Authority Financial Markets, AFM. Now a third supervisor, the Dutch Competition Agency, NMa, is joining the fray and turning its attention to the pensions market. Mariska van der Westen spoke with the head of NMa’s financial sector monitoring division, Fieke van der Lecq
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‘Reform Dutch first pillar’ – OECD
[16:50 CET 31-01] EUROPE – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has proposed reforming the Dutch first pillar pension system, which unrevised will account for the bulk of future deficits.
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ABP sees strong profit in alternatives
[15:00 CET 16-01] NETHERLANDS - Alternative investments was the best returning asset class for the large civil service pension scheme ABP, while total returns on investments reached 3.8% during 2007.
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Features
How Vervoer handed over the fiduciary reins
Pensioenfonds Vervoer made headlines last year when it awarded a fiduciary management mandate to Goldman Sachs. Walter Brand, Vervoer CEO, tells David White what happened next
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Microfinance joins pensions portfolio
Dutch institutional investors are showing increasing interest in microfinance as a diversifer and the market appears to be largely untapped. Leen Preesman reports
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Special Report
How to raise pensions awareness
Alfred Kool suggests a way in which pension funds can organise the communication of information to their members in an efficient and professional way
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Deciding where Cordares wants to be
Adri van der Wurff, the new chairman of pensions provider and asset manager Cordares, talks to Leen Preesman about the course the company will take
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Laurus shows the way to LDI
Laurus pension fund has pioneered the use of liability-driven investment in its investment strategy. Dick Kamp, chief executive of the fund, tells David White how LDI has performed
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Widening the net for asset pooling
Until now, asset pooling has been an option largely reserved for the bigger players in the Dutch pensions market. David White reports on an initiative to bring the benefits to smaller funds
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Surfing the second wave of fiduciary management
After the first wave of full-service fiduciary mandates, Dutch pension funds are beginning to pick and mix asset managers’ fiduciary offerings. David White reports
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Beta: genuinely active management
Getting your beta right is one of the main challenges for an institutional investor, and alpha and beta management strategies provide a new emerging framework for institutional asset management. Bob Rädecker and Alfred Slager explain PGGM’s philosophy and innovations behind beta management
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Cracks appear under a calm surface
The hitherto stable world of asset management in the Netherlands has been shaken by a series of tremors in the past year. Highest on the Richter scale is the concept of fiduciary management raising questions of loss of control and conflicts of interest. Gail Moss reports
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Why Mn Services is putting on weight
Mn Services’ acquisition of PME’s business will give it the critical mass it needs to compete at the top level of pensions provision, Mn Services chairman Rudolf Hagendijk tells Leen Preesman
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AVH switch to passive strategy bears fruit
AVH, a medium-sized industrywide pension scheme for agricultural wholesalers, has ploughed a lone furrow, managing its administration in-house and following a cautious investment strategy. Brendan Maton reports
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Special Report
How to clean up with clean technology
Current concerns about global warming have raised investor interest in clean technology businesses and the private equity funds that invest in them. David White reports
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Features
Looking back and looking forward
After 13 years with the pensions provider and asset manager Cordares and its predecessor, the Sociaal Fonds voor de Bouw-nijverheid (SFB), departing chairman Joep Schouten looks back at a career that started on the shop floor. Leen Preesman reports
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Special Report
How to avoid future minefields
The row over pension funds investing in companies that manufacture cluster bombs and landmines could perhaps have been avoided if the funds had used a new portfolio screening service. David White reports
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Smart solutions for the self-employed
The pension needs of the self-employed in Holland have been overlooked in the past, particularly their ability and willingness to bear risk. Alwin Oerlemans and Jeroen Tielman report on some of the solutions proposed at the recent PensionSummit
