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Dutch Treasury not to issue index-linked bonds
The Dutch State Treasury Agency won’t issue index-linked bonds in the near future, it said in its outlook for 2006. At present, index-linked bonds are not attractive as an instrument for state financing, because they might increase the effect of inflation on the budget, instead of neutralising it, it explained. ...
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Leading from the front
The €11bn private equity mandate awarded by Dutch pension funds ABP and PGGM to AlpInvest Partners has taken Dutch institutional investment in the asset class to a whole new level. But will this kick-start a renewed interest by other Dutch pension funds - particularly the smaller ones - in private ...
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Proving support for compulsion
There are over 700 pension funds in the Netherlands. Most of them carry out schemes for employees themselves. Eleven funds focus on the liberal professionals. These occupational pensions funds serve physiotherapists, marine pilots, artists, general practitioners, medical consultants, notaries, obstetricians, vets, pharmacists, dentists and the oarsmen of the Rotterdam port. ...
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The makings of a winner
Year-end prognostications about the evolution of the securities services product set are always an ill-advised enterprise – after all, it was only after the fourth year of commentators touting it as the next big thing that outsourcing finally deigned to take off as ‘predicted’. However, if I were a betting ...
