All articles by Sameer van Alfen – Page 3
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Large majority of smaller Dutch pension funds use SDGs – study
Climate action, Sustainable and Affordable Energy and Good Health & Wellbeing are most popular
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Alibaba excluded from Rabobank pension fund’s sustainable benchmark
Scheme designed new benchmark with its fiduciary manager Achmea IM, using the FTSE Russell All Country World Index as basis
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Over 90 Dutch pension funds cross indexation threshold
The average current funding ratio of a Dutch pension fund stood at 109.2% at the end of August
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Dutch pension fund costs hit €10bn
Pension funds in the Netherlands paid more than €10bn in administration and asset management costs for the first time in 2020
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Dutch midwives fund struggles to find alternative for raw materials
After deciding against inflation linkers the fund is now considering infrastructure
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Thales pension fund swaps NN IP for BlackRock
BlackRock offered to lower total investment management costs
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Dutch wood processing scheme cancels merger with furniture fund
The large funding ratio gap meant there would have been a high chance of a significant cut in pension rights for PHJ members on 1 January 2022
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Rabobank pension fund continues serial underperformance
The fund will replace its disappointing factor investing strategy with a passive portfolio
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DSM pension fund invests 5% in gold
The fund said it invests in physical gold which is stored at a Swiss bank
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ABP exit settles quarrel with Australian mining firm
ABP had been investing in Jupiter Mines since 2012, when it still was a private firm
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PostNL pension fund makes farmland allocation over returns, SDGs
Pension scheme has launched a new fund for its farmland investment in cooperation with its fiduciary manager Kempen
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AXA IM: fiduciary management no longer a priority in the Netherlands
Cosun told its members in January it will soon inform them about their choice for a new fiduciary manager
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Aon Dutch fiduciary plans run aground
The firm currently only has one Dutch client for its fiduciary management business – United Pensions, the Belgian multi-client pension fund of Aon Hewitt
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Dutch pension funds return an average 10.2% for 2020
Pension funds made the best returns on their interest rate hedges, as interest rates dropped to record lows over the year
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ABP goes head-to-head with Australian mining firm over demerger
The €493bn Dutch civil service scheme does not support Jupiter’s current proposal as this involves ABP automatically becoming a shareholder in Juno Minerals
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Dutch company schemes may choose to grandfather existing funds
Pension cuts will lead to disappointed members, reducing support for the new pension contract
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Bouw pension fund to up real estate investments
The €70bn fund has €1.9bn available to invest in predominantly foreign real estate projects
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Smart Pension to expand to the Netherlands
Smart’s platform consists of several components: the admin platform and its underlying software; the collection of pension contributions; and the paying out of pensions
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Age of trustees impacts pension fund investment mix
The research concluded that the older the composition of a fund’s board, the less they invested in equities.
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Climate action most popular SDG among Dutch pension funds
Pension funds often select SDGs following member surveys