All articles by Mariska van der Westen
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NewsDutch survey: In-house asset management gets boost
Externally managed assets drop by €169bn to €916bn this year
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NewsAlbert Akkerman, former CEO of SPF Beheer, dies
Akkerman was also CEO at the sector scheme for painters as well as KLM’s pension funds
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Country Report
Fiduciary Management: Modular solutions rise
Fiduciary management continues to be popular. Clients are exercising tighter control than ever and the emphasis lies on the strengthening of expertise, risk management and liability-driven investing, writes Mariska van der Westen
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Country Report
Pensions In The Netherlands: Sailing into rough waters
Few things are as expressive of a country’s culture and history as its popular sayings and expressions. Take the Dutch: when we believe somebody is crazy, we say ‘he has been hit by a windmill’. When something is obvious, we can ‘sense it on our wooden shoes’.
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Country Report
Pensions in The Netherlands: A continuing soap opera
Now that attempts to radically overhaul the Dutch pension system have floundered owing to legal problems, union opposition and politics, efforts to future-proof the second pension pillar have favoured evolution over revolution
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Special Report
ABN Amro Pension Fund: Regime change
Geraldine Leegwater tells Mariska van der Westen how the ABN Amro Dutch pension fund project managed its transition to collective defined contribution
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NewsDutch experts reject passive management as 'new default option'
New approach among Dutch schemes is ‘measured choice per asset class’
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NewsThe Defined Benefits: Dutch pension industry veterans sing for charity
Peter Borgdorff on drums, John Spruijt on bass, Peter Krul on guitar and Steeph Custers on violin …
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NewsFiduciary management expert Anton van Nunen leaves Syntrus Achmea
Industry veteran set to relaunch consultancy
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Features
In search of a square circle
The Dutch are undertaking a major overhaul of their pensions system. ‘Again?’ you might ask. After all, the Dutch have been tinkering with their system for years, drafting and rejecting one daring redesign after another, while engaging in bickering over the best way to modernise and ‘future-proof’ their slightly outdated, second pillar.
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NewsAcademics agree radical proposal to reform Dutch pension system
Groundbreaking blueprint gives clear individual ownership rights, combined with protection of collective risk sharing
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NewsLarger Dutch schemes pay more for asset management, survey shows
LCP reveals findings of survey on Dutch pension funds’ asset management fees
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NewsDutch engineering firms to merge into multi-company fund
Planned consolidation of scheme assets follows mergers of Royal Haskoning and DHV in 2012
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NewsPostNL scheme gains 3.3% in third quarter, as TNO returns 4.6%
Dutch schemes continue to report decline in funding, despite robust returns across asset classes
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Features
The shore will turn the ship
After five years of intense negotiations and acrimonious disputes, the Dutch have finally settled on a new financial framework (FTK), expected to take effect, at least in part, as of January 2015.
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NewsAPG to invest in hydro power, transmission lines
Dutch asset manager planning to almost double infrastructure portfolio
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NewsDutch regulator growing too powerful, Pensions Federation warns
Industry group decries DNB’s ability to dictate pension funds’ investment strategies
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NewsDutch pensions regulator downscales board of directors
Joanne Kellermann, expected to leave in November, will not be replaced
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Features
Pension Fund Governance: ABP to the ballot box
For the first time, the €309bn Dutch civil servants fund has held elections for its accountability body. More controversially, pensioners will now sit on the main board, writes Mariska van der Westen
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NewsDutch pensions industry warns of FTK's impact on indexation
Options ‘too limited’ in new framework, according to interest groups, pension funds
