All articles by Pieter Mullen – Page 2

  • Features

    Time for a debate

    September 2014 (Magazine)

    This autumn our government is orchestrating what it calls a ‘national debate’ on the future of our Dutch pension system. We at Wasserdicht Nederland have always taken a prudent approach to our pension schemes and we have remained well funded. Unlike many other Dutch funds, we have not had to implement benefits cuts – something I hope our members appreciate.

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    Time for a change

    July 2014 (Magazine)

    Earlier this year, the investment team had a briefing from Rolf, the long-standing chairman of trustees of the Wasserdicht Pension Funds here in the Netherlands. Things are changing, at least in terms of our internal governance, and Rolf came along to tell us about it.

  • Features

    Look to the north

    June 2014 (Magazine)

    In the Netherlands we are sensitive to environmental problems and are aware of our vulnerability as a low-lying nation to rising sea level. After all, you have to if a fifth of your land and a fifth of your people are below sea level. 

  • Features

    Outward bound

    May 2014 (Magazine)

    We seem to get out of the office so rarely these days. All of us spend more time dealing with electronic communications that simple, face-to-face contact takes place less often than it used to.

  • Features

    DB, DC and all that

    March 2014 (Magazine)

    Wasserdicht’s Dutch pension fund is one of the few that has maintained a strong solvency ratio throughout the crisis of the past few years.

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    How do you colour-code that?

    February 2014 (Magazine)

    At Wasserdicht Pensioenfonds, some of our trustees have started to scrutinise our internal investment organisation.

  • German pensions "suffer advice gap"
    Features

    What do you want to know?

    January 2014 (Magazine)

    Diary of an Investor: At Wasserdicht Pension Funds, the investment team generally gets on with the job of running the fund’s money in the way the trustees tell us to. 

  • Features

    More buckets

    December 2013 (Magazine)

    Last month, for the first time, we experimented with a new approach to our monthly international strategy meeting. Video conferencing.

  • Features

    Mark to myth

    November 2013 (Magazine)

    These days, information is everywhere.

  • Features

    In the pipeline

    October 2013 (Magazine)

    It’s a fine September morning and I am over the North Sea in a helicopter together with Geert, our bright young spark in the investment department. But it’s not just a day out and we are all dressed in hard hats and waterproofs since we are on our way visit a gas installation. Our proposed investment is nowhere to be seen, though, as it is a share in a gas pipeline network on the seabed.