IPE's Netherlands Coverage – Page 21
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News
Dutch pension funds lose more than €100bn in Q2
But thanks to rising interest rates, funding ratios have gone up
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Dutch pension fund for grocers close to new pensions cut
Despite the rise in interest rates this year, the fund’s funding ratio is still below 100%
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Dutch pharmacist fund ups equity risk in new pension system
Pensioenfonds Openbare Apothekers (SPOA) is the first professional fund to have designed a pension arrangement for the new DC pension system
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AZL buys Festina Finance DC admin system
The Dutch pension administrator is the second Dutch client for the Danish IT firm after APG
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New Goldman roles for NN IP leadership team
The announcement of new roles for NN IP’s senior leadership comes just weeks after the firm’s head of fiduciary management Maureen Schlejen left the firm for Cardano/Actiam
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Dutch IBM fund hedges inflation risk completely
The scheme also plans to start investing in green bonds
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Dutch physiotherapist scheme goes passive with custom-made ESG benchmark
The fund has swapped €400m in fund investments for a passively managed ESG mandate
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Trust in Dutch pension funds shoots up to post-great financial crisis high
Confidence among the public in Dutch pension funds’ ability to meet their liabilities to pensioners has risen to 62%, the highest level since 2008
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PFZW unveils 50% carbon reduction target for 2030
The Dutch healthcare scheme has also for the first time formulated CO2 reduction targets for its real estate, infrastructure and private equity investments
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Rabobank pension fund indexes pensions by 6.2%
The pension scheme is the first Dutch fund to provide indexation based on this year’s inflation figure
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Pension fund for Dutch medical specialists indexes pensions by 3.7%
Today’s record-high inflation did not play a role in the decision to provide more indexation
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Features
The Dutch pension sector needs to explain why we need to move to a new system
The Dutch pension system has been recognised for many years as one of the best in the world. According to the Global Pension Index of Mercer and CFA Institute, the Netherlands has the best pension system after Iceland.
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Features
‘Painful’ private equity fees are hard to avoid
The Netherlands’ €551bn ($576bn) civil service scheme ABP paid a record €2.8bn in performance fees to private equity managers in 2021, prompting the fund’s president Harmen van Wijnen to announce an external investigation to assess ABP’s rising asset management costs. The €277.5bn healthcare scheme PFZW paid €1.26bn in performance fees to private equity last year, accounting for two thirds of total asset management costs.
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Burn-outs hit Blue Sky Group management board
CEO Tom Bottinga is currently the sole serving board member
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ABN Amro fund faces acute staff shortage
The pension fund also sees the complexity of the new pension legislation as a strategic risk that could negatively impact the management of the fund
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Vervoer commits $300m to SDG-focused private credit fund
The ILX strategy will enable the scheme to access a diversified pool of investments across emerging markets
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PostNL scheme introduces Paris Aligned Benchmark for CO2 reduction
The fund has already reduced its carbon footprint below a 1.5°C path, but remains invested in fossil fuels for now
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Bpf Bouw supervisory board questions innovation ability at APG
It cites a critical internal report by APG about its pension administration
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Opinion Pieces
Delay looms to Netherlands reform process
The Dutch government has vowed to finalise the country’s hotly debated switch to a pension system with defined-contribution variants by 1 January 2023.