IPE's Netherlands Coverage – Page 158
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Knowing what lies behind hedge funds
Dutch pension funds’ growing interest in alternatives like hedge funds is having an impact on the middle and back offices of securities services providers, says Heather Mackenzie
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Facing up to a harsher future
Gail Moss reports on how investment houses are preparing for the new financial framework due to come into force in January 2007
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Altis Investment Management
Altis Investment Management is an independent investment fiduciary managing and advising on multi-asset and multi-manager portfolios. The company is based in Zug, Switzerland, with offices in Amsterdam and London, and employs a team of 16 people, “We are positioned as a pure fiduciary investment service provider, combining manager selection and ...
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Theodoor Gilissen Bankiers
Though founded back in 1881, Dutch bank Theodoor Gilissen Bankiers N.V offers one of the more modern strategies. Theodoor Gilissen is the only party in the Netherlands to offer passive index products, says Lodewijk van der Kroft, director of Institutional Asset Management at Theodoor Gilissen. Using an index-tracking ...
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SNS Asset Management
Known as a specialist in socially responsible investing, active manager SNS Asset Management positions itself as a one-stop shop for SRI. Unlike some players operating within the sustainable investment arena that focus solely on one aspect such as company screening, SNS has brought all activities related to asset management under ...
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AVV seeks to redress the balance
The pre-pension settlement, which allowed over 55s to keep their tax-friendly schemes, ruffled a lot of feathers, especially those of young workers, as Leen Preesman reports
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€5.3bn Hoechst fund wary of alternatives
GERMANY – Hoechster Pensionskasse (HPK), the €5.3bn pension fund for companies that were part of the old Hoechst chemical conglomerate, says it is wary of investing in alternative asset classes currently due to what it perceives as weaknesses with the products.
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Negative returns at Dutch transport, postal funds
NETHERLANDS - The Spoorwegpensioenfonds SPF has booked negative returns of -2.5% during the second quarter of 2006, the €11.1bn scheme reported.
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IBM members fear €7.2bn pension fund sell-off
UK – Fears have emerged that computer giant IBM may decide to sell its £4.9bn (€7.2bn) UK defined benefit pension plan now it has returned to being fully-funded.
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Big Dutch funds increase equity trading – paper
NETHERLANDS - The largest Dutch pension funds are becoming more active as equity traders, keeping shares for increasingly shorter periods in their portfolios, a survey has shown.
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Equity, real estate boost Dutch medics
NETHERLANDS – Equity and real estate were the main drivers behind above-benchmark returns at the €4.7bn scheme for Dutch medical consultants, Stichting Pensioenfonds Medisch Specialisten.
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Equity and real estate drive Stork’s returns
NETHERLANDS - With returns of 29.3% and 29.1% respectively, equity and real estate were the main drivers behind a 14.7% annual return last year at the €2.9bn pension fund of industrial group Stork.
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Dutch funds return 14.8% - WM
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension funds returned 14.8% in 2005, according to results from WM Performance Services’ Universe of Dutch Pension Funds.
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ABP explains global real estate strategy
REAL ESTATE – Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, the €200bn Dutch civil Service scheme, has decided not to invest in Russian real estate but is currently enacting deals in Mexico and Brazil (This story first appeared on www.iperealestate.com.)
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Market conduct under microscope
Under the renewed Dutch pension law, one of the new tasks of the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) will be the supervision of the quality of information pension funds provide their members and pensioners with a second supervisor for the funds. Within the pensions industry this announcement caused ...
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Mind the gap: managing your duration
Like any investment approach, liability-driven strategies need to be used within a mix of tactics and instruments. Liabilities need to be taken into account, but not at the expense of performance. Experience has shown that good managers can still add to performance whilst managing liability, if placed in the right ...
