All articles by Cyril Widdershoven – Page 7
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Dutch building schemes in €21bn merger
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch building industry pension fund managers ASW and Cordares have agreed to merge to create an entity with €21bn in assets.
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Pension systems ‘to have macroeconomic impact’
NETHERLANDS – Pension systems will have an increasing macroeconomic impact and population ageing will affect capital markets, the Netspar Pension Workshop was told recently.
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Funds’ bond demand hitting interest rates – DNB
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch central bank and pensions regulator has said that pension fund demand for long-term bonds has put pressure on interest rates.
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New Dutch pension law proceeds
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch government is still going through the process of implementing the new pensions law – despite scepticism about whether it will be implemented by the January 1 2006 deadline.
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Dutch opposition seeks shift from DB to DC
NETHERLANDS – Wouter Bos, parliamentary chairman of the opposition Labour Party, has called for a move from a strict defined benefit pension system to something more like defined contribution in the coming years.
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Dutch players still critical of FTK
NETHERLANDS – Further criticism about the new Financial Assessment Framework for pension funds emerged last week at an industry gathering.
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Shell Dutch pension talks in deadlock
NETHERLANDS - The pensions dialogue between the central works council and management at oil giant Shell Nederland is deadlocked – with unions talking about possible strike action.
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Pensions in a nutshell
Oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell is running a feasibility study on the possibilities of merging its worldwide pension asset and investment advice departments. According to Shell spokesman Henk Bonder the initial focus is on combining the asset and investment advice departments of its UK and Dutch pension funds. This does not ...
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Over a barrel
The world has become accustomed to increased crude oil prices in recent years. But while most oil analysts ascribe the major price upsets to factors inherent to the crude oil market, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has put part of the blame on the speculative role of pension ...
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Rabobank pension fund yields 9.3%
NETHERLANDS - The pension fund of Dutch financial services group Rabobank made a return of 9.3% in 2004 – the same as 2003.
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Robeco to assist schemes in voting
NETHERLANDS - Robeco is to offer to assist its larger customers such as pension funds to influence listed companies to meet socially responsible investment criteria.
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Dutch party proposes pension age of 67
NETHERLANDS - Boris Dittrich, the chairman of the centre liberal D66 party, the third party in the Dutch government, has proposed raising the pension age from 65 to 67 within the next 25 years.
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Dutch firms can outsource pension to EU countries
NETHERLANDS - Dutch companies will have the ability to outsource their pensions to a non-Dutch organisation or fund within the EU when the country implements the new EU pensions directive.
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MN Services net profit increases by 94%
NETHERLANDS - MN Services, one of the largest Dutch pension fund administration and management services firms, says its overall net profit rose 94% in 2004 to €9.1m.
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DNB sees improvement in Dutch schemes
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch Central Bank says the overall financial position of Dutch pension funds have improved remarkably.
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Shell studies worldwide pension consolidation
NETHERLANDS – Oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell is running a feasibility study on the possibilities of merging its worldwide pension asset and investment advice departments.
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Philips scheme appoints director (Correct)
NETHERLANDS – The board of directors of the Philips Pension Fund has appointed Jasper Kemme, 42, as the new director of the fund (Corrects reference to Mercer in 2nd paragraph).
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PGGM returns 10.9% with coverage ratio at 111%
NETHERLANDS - PGGM, the Dutch healthcare pension fund made a 10.9% return on its investments in 2004.
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Blue Sky names new managing director
NETHERLANDS – Blue Sky Group, which manages the pension assets of airline KLM, has named Toine van der Stee as its new managing director.
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VB chairman van Popta sees no pension crisis
NETHERLANDS – Benne van Popta, co-chairman of the Dutch Association of Industry-wide Pension Funds, the VB, has said there is no crisis in the pension sector.
