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What resonates with me is “based on objective and rational criteria, the investments are not in violation of national or international legislation” and “We are dealing with very contradictory signals, which make decision-making very complicated.”

In my opinion the fundamental problem is that individual members have not the possibility to make their own choice. I would regard pension assets as assets from the members to be used to finance their pension. In the mean time they should have the right to make very fundamental decisions on what their money is used for as it is their money. Taking it from here the ABP Board could also have decided to divest 50% of their holdings since it is the wish of 50% of their members to invest elsewhere.

I know that this is not the way how we have arranged our pension system. What I would add to the discussion is that it is also about listening to the voice of the members on who's behalf the investments are done. Listening to your members, taking your members opinions serious, might lead to other decisions than purely based on "objective and rational criteria"

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