All articles by Leen Preesman – Page 125
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Dutch institutions ‘often ignore green issues’
NETHERLANDS - The voting behaviour on environmental and social issues of large institutional investors is often different from their actual opinion, the Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development, or VBDO, says.
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Netspar partnership director Bakker to leave
NETHERLANDS - Rob Bakker, director of partner contacts at Dutch pensions network Netspar, is to leave next month, the organisation has announced.
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Regulator may fine ABP, PGGM over levensloop
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch pensions regulator DNB may fine the country’s two largest schemes, ABP and PGGM, for promoting the levensloop, or ‘life course’, schemes of the subsidiaries.
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Star calls for Dutch governance principles
NETHERLANDS - The implementation of the principles for pension fund governance by scheme boards must be made mandatory, the Dutch Labour Foundation has said.
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Dutch governance body Eumedion launches
NETHERLANDS - The corporate governance forum Eumedion – formerly known as SCGOP – has started under its new name with nine new members.
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Cordares-ASW merger set for January
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch construction industry pensions providers Cordares and ASW say they will complete their previously announced merger as of January 1.
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SPF Beheer gets more LevensloopPlus takers
NETHERLANDS - Four more pension schemes have joined the initiative of Dutch railways pension fund SPF for a joint ‘levensloop', or life course, scheme.
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Dutch Treasury won’t issue index-linked bonds
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch State Treasury Agency won’t issue index-linked bonds in the near future, it said in its outlook for 2006.
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ABP publishes IORP investment principles
NETHERLANDS - Civil service scheme ABP is the first pension fund in the Netherlands to publish a declaration on its investment principles.
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Dutch insurance association CEO to retire
NETHERLANDS - Eric Fisher is take early retirement from his post as chief executive of the Association of Dutch Insurers, VvV, and be succeeded by Richard Weurding.
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PGGM may pay pensions in kind
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch health care scheme PGGM is looking into paying pensions partly in kind, its chairman Karel Noordzij has said.
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Fortis to switch to ‘levensloop’
NETHERLANDS – Fortis Bank will switch its full pre-pension contributions to the new ‘levensloop’, or life course, scheme from 1 January.
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Levensloop for self-employed reconsidered
NETHERLANDS – Dutch Social Affairs minister Aart Jan de Geus is again to look at the possibilities of creating a ‘levensloop’, or life course, scheme for the self-employed.
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Dutch VB names new deputy head
NETHERLANDS - Leny van der Heiden has been appointed as the new deputy director and policy manager of the Dutch Association of Industry-wide Pension Funds, or VB.
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PGGM to lower contributions
NETHERLANDS - Instead of the initially announced rise to 18.2%, health care scheme PGGM will lower its contributions for 2006 by 0.05% to 16.15%, it said.
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TNO's van Ballegooijen to retire next month
NETHERLANDS: Joop Ruijgrok has been appointed director of the pension fund of technical research institute TNO, the scheme has announced.
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Number of Dutch pensioners set to surge
NETHERLANDS - The percentage of over 60’s within the Dutch population is to increase by more than half to a total of 30% within the next 25 years, recent figures of Statistics Netherlands have revealed.
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Grafische scheme taps Kas Bank for levensloop
NETHERLANDS - Kas Bank will implement the 'levensloop', or life course, scheme of the industry-wide pension fund for the printing industry, or the Grafische BedrijfsFondsen, as of January 1 2006, the scheme has announced.
