All articles by Tjibbe Hoekstra – Page 7
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Global pension assets down 16.7% in 2022
UK pension funds suffered the greatest losses due to their forced selling of Gilts during the liquidity crisis last autumn
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PFZW sells another 78 oil and gas firms
The move is part of the Dutch healthcare scheme’s engagement programme with fossil fuel companies
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PGB awards €4.5bn ESG mandate to Osmosis IM
The move doubles the London-based asset manager’s assets to $9bn
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Dutch pension investors demand AGM vote on sustainability report
Schemes want legislation compelling companies to allow a vote on sustainability reports
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Passive and sustainable investing in EMD: hard to combine for small funds
EMD had long been considered the last frontier for passive investors, as the asset class was seen as insufficiently liquid and therefore hard to replicate
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Mirova – Ecolabel can help tackle greenwashing
But if too strict criteria are being applied, the label would risk missing its goal, according to the French impact asset manager
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Interest rate rises propel Dutch pension fund losses to record high
Pension funds in the Netherlands lost some €300bn on their interest rate hedges in 2022, according to estimates
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Low Countries’ COVID recovery funds contingent on pension reform
The Netherlands and Belgium must push through reforms to their pension systems to receive COVID recovery grants from Brussels
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Dutch lump sum option postponed yet again
The introduction of a lump sum option for retirees, originally planned for 1 January 2022, will now be postponed to 2024
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Dutch pension funds ask government to pay for supervisory cost increases
Additional supervisory costs related to the pension transition should be financed by tax payers rather than pension funds, according to Dutch social partners
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Dutch pension law heads to Senate after parliamentary approval
The Netherlands’s Second Chamber approved the law just before Christmas with a comfortable majority
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Special Report
DC Pensions: Dutch pension funds grapple with member choice decisions
Member choice will be central after Dutch pension reform, at least in theory
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ABP targets 50% absolute CO2 reduction by 2030
To reach its goal, the Dutch civil scheme will reduce its investable universe excluding companies harmful to the environment
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PMT earmarks €10bn for impact investing by 2030
The goal means the Dutch metals industry scheme will have to find €8bn worth of impact investments in the next eight years
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Dutch pension benefits up to 40% higher in new system
Especially younger people benefit from the switch to DC because there will no longer be a need for buffers, according to calculations by pension regulator DNB
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PME sets 50% CO₂ reduction goal for 2030
The metals and electronics industry scheme is the first Dutch fund to set an absolute CO2 interim reduction target
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3% indexation ceiling gives Dutch funds a headache
Several pension schemes in the Netherlands cannot compensate pensioners as much for inflation as they would ideally want because of fiscal constraints
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PME adapts fossil fuel exclusion policy after TV report
The fund claimed last year it had sold all its investments in fossil fuels, but had used exclusion criteria that were not stringent enough, PME has admitted
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Goldman Sachs AM expands Dutch fiduciary team
GSAM is not looking for rationalisation of its organisation, but for growth, according to CEO Fadi Abuali
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Interviews
Pension funds on the record: Reflections on a sobering year
Pension fund managers reflect on an extremely challenging year for markets and look to the future, considering questions such as what is risk-free, how to secure inflation-linked assets, the role of central banks and the risk of liquidity crises