All articles by Leen Preesman – Page 111
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E-Quality suggests solution to retired migrant poverty
[14:30 CEST 26-09] NETHERLANDS - A mandatory pension for every worker could help to provide migrants with a reasonable pension at retirement, E-Quality, the Dutch knowledge centre for emancipation, family and diversity, has claimed.
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Dutch insurers claim 18% of second pillar
[15:00 CEST 25-09] NETHERLANDS - Life insurers built up an 18% share of the second pillar pensions market by 2005, the Dutch Centre for Insurance Statistics, or CVS, has claimed.
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DNB fines Mn for 'illegal' data use
[15:15 CEST 24-09] NETHERLANDS - Pensions regulator De Nederlandsche Bank has fined Dutch pensions provider and asset management firm Mn Services for trying to “illegally” obtain information about participants of industry-wide schemes for additional insurance services.
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Pension schemes’ governance is lagging - DNB
NETHERLANDS - Many pension funds have underestimated the time needed to implement the principles of pension fund governance and a large majority have yet to organise their internal supervision, pensions supervisor De Nederlandsche Bank has warned.
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Dutch cabinet to limit support for pension build-up
[16:00 CEST 21-09] NETHERLANDS - The Dutch cabinet has announced proposals to limit the fiscal support for the build-up of a pension for incomes of over €185,000.
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Cabinet offers no clarity on ‘levensloop’ future
[16:45 CEST 19-09] NETHERLANDS – The Dutch government has been unable to formulate a new policy on the ailing tax-friendly ‘levensloop’, or life course, scheme.
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ABP holds largest player status in carbon trading
[15:30 CEST 18-09] NETHERLANDS - ABP pension fund is now the largest institutional investor in the innovative asset class of emission rights as its total allocation to carbon trading is €500m.
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DNB director Dirk Witteveen dies
[15:48 CEST 14-09] NETHERLANDS – Dirk Witteveen, a director at the financial regulator and pensions supervisor De Nederlandsche Bank, has died.
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Long-term pension fund perspective required - DNB
[15:00 CEST 14-09] NETHERLANDS - Dutch Pension funds must focus their contributions and indexation policy on long-term needs rather than short-term targets, according to supervisor De Nederlandsche Bank.
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PNO Media to test SRI policy
[16:45 CEST 11-09] NETHERLANDS – Media PNO will seek member feedback on its revised socially-responsible investment (SRI) policy later this year, after employers earlier threatened to withdraw membership unless they changed their stance.
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Pensions sector critical of tax-deductibility cap
[12:45 CEST 11-09] NETHERLANDS - The Dutch pensions sector has criticised the leaked cabinet plan to limit the tax-deductibility of pension contributions for higher incomes.
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Dutch direct sub-prime exposure "limited" - DNB
[15:30 CEST 07-09] NETHERLANDS - Direct exposure of Dutch pension funds and insurers to the US sub-prime mortgage market is relatively limited, but pension funds with minimal hedge fund exposure may have made gains through the turbulence, suggests evidence from the regulator and pension funds.
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Why Mn Services is putting on weight
Mn Services’ acquisition of PME’s business will give it the critical mass it needs to compete at the top level of pensions provision, Mn Services chairman Rudolf Hagendijk tells Leen Preesman
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Regulators to head up Holland Financial Centre
[12:30 CEST 07-09] NETHERLANDS - The new Holland Financial Centre has appointed Akkie Lansberg as its chief executive officer and another member of the existing supervisory team as her deputy.
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Interest swaps keep SPW’s returns down
[16:30 CEST 06-09] NETHERLANDS - Interest swaps created a negative return for SPW, the €4.6bn industry-wide pension fund for the housing corporations, in the second quarter of the year, even though equity elsewhere returned well over the benchmark.
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TNO scheme names BlackRock as fiduciary manager
[15:30 CEST 04-09] NETHERLANDS – TNO, the €2bn pension fund of the applied scientific research institute, has appointed investment management firm BlackRock as its fiduciary manager.
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Looking back and looking forward
After 13 years with the pensions provider and asset manager Cordares and its predecessor, the Sociaal Fonds voor de Bouw-nijverheid (SFB), departing chairman Joep Schouten looks back at a career that started on the shop floor. Leen Preesman reports
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ABP to sell office fund KFN
[17:00 CEST 29-08] NETHERLANDS - The €211bn civil service scheme ABP is considering selling at least part of its offices investment fund KFN, in order to further diversify its overall portfolio.
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Few Dutch schemes see diversity in soft commodities
[13:00 CEST 28-08] NETHERLANDS – Only a tiny fraction of Dutch pension fund assets are actively invested in agricultural commodities, IPE has learned.
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BPF Schilders scheme increases asset palette
[17:04 CEST 17-08] NETHERLANDS - BPF Schilders, the Dutch industry-wide pension fund for the painting, finishing and glazing sector has replaced part of its equity investments with allocations in private equity, hedge funds and commodities, in order the achieve more stable returns.
