All articles by Leen Preesman – Page 114
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Pensioners seek more clout in unions’ link up
[10:55 CEST 15/05] NETHERLANDS - The largest union FNV and the union for the elderly ANBO are thinking of building closer ties to provide more clout for pensioners.
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Fortis’ life sales up 40%
[10:57 CEST 14/05] EUROPE - Banking and insurance group Fortis saw its gross inflow of life sales rise by 40% to €3.9bn in the first three months of this year, thanks mainly to strong sales in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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BT Netherlands chooses Aegon
[17:00 CEST] NETHERLANDS - British Telecom has selected Aegon as the pensions provider for its 1,000 employees in the Netherlands, the telecoms firm has announced.
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Unions demand pension funds unite on investment
[17:10 CEST] NETHERLANDS - Top-level talks between the pensions sector, insurers and banks are necessary to consolidate the Dutch position on asset management, suggests the largest union FNV.
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Cordares eyes Italian pensions
Dutch pensions provider and asset manager Cordares is preparing to move into the market for second pillar pensions in Italy. Cordares chairman Joep Schouten tells Leen Preesman where he thinks the opportunities lie
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Metal schemes create €58bn pensions provider
NETHERLANDS - PME, the €21bn industry-wide pension fund for the mechanical and electrical engineering, has formally chosen MN Services as its fiduciary manager, it announced.
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Holland “will work until 65” - Ministry
NETHERLANDS - Employees are increasingly prepared to keep on working until the official retirement age of 65, the Dutch ministry of Social Affairs has announced.
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Careon steers a steady course
The tax-friendly ‘levensloop’, or life-course, scheme has been characterised as Holland’s damp squib. Leen Preesman hears how PGGM’s new levensloop subsidiary Careon plans to put some fizz into the idea
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AFM makes the right connections
One of the key tasks of the new financial markets regulator is to oversee the communication of information about indexation to pension fund members. Leen Preesman asks AFM’s managing director Gerald Santing about the level of supervision pension funds and insurers can expect
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Bovenberg calls for governance clarity
NETHERLANDS - Dutch politicians must provide clarity on the governance model of new API funds, otherwise their improvement will be delayed and the export of pension expertise will not materialise, according to pensions expert Lans Bovenberg.
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ABN Amro frees up private equity arm
NETHERLANDS - ABN Amro, the Dutch bank subject to a bidding war from rivals, will transfer the management of most of its private equity business to an affiliate.
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AZL nets Grolsch, Gamma and Sappi
NETHERLANDS – Commercial pensions manager, AZL has netted three new clients with over 9,500 participants in total, it announced.
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Dutch levensloop attracts just 5% of workers
NETHERLANDS - Just 5.5% of workers have joined the new tax-friendly ‘levensloop’, or life-course, scheme in 2006, according to Statistics Netherlands.
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Alternatives perform well at PGGM
NETHERLANDS - Alternative asset classes performed very well during the first quarter, the €83bn healthcare and social work scheme PGGM reported.
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Commodities top performer at TNT
NETHERLANDS - With returns of 4.7%, commodities were the best performing asset class of the postal pension fund TNT in the first quarter, it said.
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Dutch to examine Belgian pensions legislation
NETHERLANDS – Dutch social affairs minister Piet Hein Donner says he will examine the implications of Dutch pensions funds moving to Belgium.
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Dutch schemes not set to move abroad soon - minister
NETHERLANDS - Regional differences in pension supervision should not encourage Dutch schemes to move to other EU countries soon, according to social affairs’ minister Piet Hein Donner.
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ABN Amro Mellon to join BoNY - custody experts
GLOBAL – ABN Amro Mellon customers might become Bank of New York Mellon customers in future, custody experts told IPE.
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Belgium vets foreign applications as Dutch get twitchy
BELGIUM - The Belgian pensions supervisor CBFA is vetting the applications of five foreign pension funds which want to establish themselves in Belgium, the watchdog indicated.
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ABP to disclose entire equity holdings
NETHERLANDS - At least four large Dutch pension funds have announced they will disclose the names of quoted companies in which they invest.
