All articles by Leen Preesman – Page 110
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Deciding where Cordares wants to be
Adri van der Wurff, the new chairman of pensions provider and asset manager Cordares, talks to Leen Preesman about the course the company will take
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Netherlands needs FGRs to become 'pensions champion'
[15:30 CET 310-10] NETHERLANDS - The Dutch financial services sector could stimulate its international pensions position through the creation of cross-border asset-pooling vehicles based on existing mutual funds for joint accounts (FGRs), pension fund experts have argued.
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Former minister calls for local pensions ringfence
[16:30 CET 29-10] NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds should support the domestic financial services industry by ring-fencing capital for domestic investment managers, former foreign affairs minister Ben Bot has suggested.
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Horeca to grant 3% indexation
[16:30 CEST 24-10] NETHERLANDS - PH&C, the €2.2bn pension fund for the Dutch hotel and catering sector, has granted its participants an indexation of 3% next year.
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Eumedion sees detriment in 'acting in concert' plan
[15:30 CEST 23-10] GERMANY/NETHERLANDS - German government proposals to sharpen the rules on 'acting in concert' will be detrimental to the attractiveness of the German capital markets, said Eumedion, the Dutch platform for institutional investors.
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Research finds Dutch are willing to go part-time
[12:30 CEST 23-10] NETHERLANDS – Over half of Dutch employees are prepared to keep on working part-time after the official retirement age of 65, according to pensions and ageing think-tank Netspar.
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PGGM targets ESG in emerging markets
[12:33 CEST 22-10] NETHERLANDS – PGGM, the €88bn Dutch healthcare pension fund, has asked Mercer to search for high-performing emerging markets equities managers with ESG at the core of their strategy.
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Large Dutch schemes remain stable despite market turmoil
[17:00 CEST 18-10] NETHERLANDS - The turmoil in the financial markets has hardly affected the returns of the large Dutch industry-wide pension funds PGGM, PMT and PME, which reported third quarter returns of 2.2%, 2% and 3.2% respectively.
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ABP and PGGM award €2bn mezzanine brief to AlpInvest
[13:30 CEST 16-10] NETHERLANDS - Private equity investor AlpInvest Partners has been awarded a €2bn mezzanine mandate from the two largest Dutch pension funds ABP and PGGM. The two pension funds own the private equity investor jointly.
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Two Dutch schemes to move to Mercer pan-European vehicle
[15:00 CEST 15-10] EUROPE - Two multinational companies are considering moving their Dutch pension activities into a pan-European pension scheme based in Ireland, claims Mercer.
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Bpf Meubel appoints ABN AMRO Mellon
[15:00 CEST 12-10] NETHERLANDS - Bpf Meubel, the €1.5bn pension fund for the furnishings industry, has appointed ABN AMRO Mellon Global Securities Services as global custodian of its assets.
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Dutch funds review Burma investments
[16:55 CEST 11-10] NETHERLANDS - PGGM, the €86bn healthcare scheme, is considering its position as a shareholder in companies which are active in Burma.
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Physios seeks closer links to medical schemes
[16:00 CEST 08-10] NETHERLANDS – SPF, the €1.8bn occupational pension fund for physiotherapists, has announced it is considering closer collaboration with the occupational schemes for obstetricians (SPV) and veterinary surgeons (SPD).
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ABP to give paid premiums information
[15:30 CEST 04-10] NETHERLANDS - ABP, the €215bn civil service scheme, is considering a plan to regularly update its participants on the level of contributions they have paid.
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Dutch speed pension build up - DNB
[12:00 CEST 03-10] NETHERLANDS - A large portion of Dutch employees have been able to speed up the build-up of their pension in the past five years, according to pensions regulator De Nederlandsche Bank.
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Equities returned 6.85 in Q2 - DNB
[11:30 CEST 01-10] NETHERLANDS - Equities were the best performing asset class for pension funds during the second quarter, returning an average 6.85%, pensions supervisor De Nederlandsche Bank has announced.
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AXA wins €600m mandate from Cosun schemes
[14:30 CEST 28-09] NETHERLANDS - Three pension funds of food producer Royal Cosun have awarded AXA Investment Managers with a €600m fiduciary mandate.
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One in four firms consider cross-border pension
[13:30 CEST 28-09] EUROPE - A quarter of large European company pension funds are thinking of introducing pan-European pension plans within the next 10 years, consultancy Towers Perrin has claimed.
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Towers Perrin warns of DB scheme closures
[16:45 CEST 27-09] EUROPE – The forces of driving down costs and risks, as well as cross-border pensions harmonisation, are likely to lead to the withdrawal of defined benefit schemes for existing employee groups, consultancy firm Towers Perrin has suggested.
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Swiss Life chooses Holland for assets base
[16:45 CEST 26-09] NETHERLANDS - Swiss Life Asset Management (SLAM) has moved a sizable chunk of its assets to the Netherlands because it claims the present legal structure for investment funds is considerably cheaper than the Luxembourg framework.
