All articles by Cyril Widdershoven – Page 6
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Funds in profile
DSM Pension Services Ewout Gillissen, senior investment manager The stock market success of speciality chemicals company DSM, the former petrochemical giant, is being mirrored by the financial success of its pension funds. After the divestment of the petrochemical segment to Saudi Arabia’s SABIC, the in-house pension management supplier DSM Pensions ...
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Ready for take off
Toine van der Stee, who took over as managing director of Blue Sky Group recently, is a relative new comer to the pension sector and appears very upbeat about current developments. “I always make a comparison between the pension sector and other financial sectors in the Netherlands,” he says “Some ...
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Shell Netherlands hit by strike over pensions
NETHERLANDS—A strike by employees of Shell Netherlands in protest at its pension proposals will bring the company’s downstream plants, including refineries and petrochemical plants, to a standstill this evening.
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Mn Services and Cordares in IT tie-up
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension firms Mn Services and Cordares are cooperating on an IT centre – which could lead to closer cooperation between the two.
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Blue Sky Group pension head van Holst leaves
NETHERLANDS – Willem van Holst is to be replaced as head of pensions at Blue Sky Group, which manages KLM’s pension assets, by Orpa Bisschop.
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Shell’s Dutch pension talks reach impasse
NETHERLANDS - The yearlong negotiations between Shell Nederland and the Dutch trade unions FNV Bondgenoten and CNV Chemie have reached an impasse.
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Dutch FTK delayed for pension funds
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch central bank has confirmed that the FTK, the new Financial Assessment Framework, will now be delayed by a year to January 1 2007.
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Dutch central bank sees no alpha move in FTK
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch central bank, the DNB, says the new FTK framework should not result in a massive move into so-called alpha generating investments by pension funds.
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Achmea, Interpolis get OK for merger
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch competition authority has approved the previously announced merger between pension management firms Interpolis and Achmea.
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Netherlands’ Bouwend awards admin to NN
NETHERLANDS - Construction sector organisation Bouwend Nederland has awarded a pension administration contract to ING Group’s Nationale Nederlanden.
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Blue Sky hires ex-Dutch bond agency official
NETHERLANDS – Blue Sky Group, which manages the pension assets of airline KLM, has hired a former official of the Dutch State Treasury Agency.
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Dutch insurers call for delay to tax changes
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch Association of Insurers has again demanded that the Dutch government delay the implementation of tax changes to pre-pension and levensloop, or life course scheme, to 1 January 2007.
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Dutch trade union lifts pension age
NETHERLANDS -- The largest Dutch trade union confederation, the FNV, is to lift the retirement age of its own 1,700 employees to 62 from 60.
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Dutch railways fund returns 4.2% in Q2
NETHERLANDS - The €10.4bn Dutch railways pension fund, or SPF, has posted a return on investments of 4.2% in the second quarter.
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Dutch union angered over government report
NETHERLANDS – FNV, the largest Dutch trade union, has refuted the government’s new policy paper on old age.
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PGGM sets up separate levensloop company
NETHERLANDS – PGGM, the second largest Dutch pension fund, has set up a new independent company to provide individual savings and investment products to the 1.1m employees in the health care sector.
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ABP, Hermes in Japan governance move
NETHERLANDS – Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, the largest Dutch pension fund, has tapped Hermes to assist it on corporate governance issues on its €4.9bn Japanese equity portfolio.
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Dutch government employees keep pre-pension
NETHERLANDS - After months of negotiations and labour protests a new agreement has been reached between the government employers and Dutch trade unions.
