All articles by Leen Preesman – Page 42
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ING pension fund returns 22% over first nine months
Large fixed income portfolio benefits from falling interest rates
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Technology company Philips warns of funding shortfall at pension scheme
Pension fund laments combined effect of falling interest rates, new FTK and riskier investment mix
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Asset Class Reports
Beleggersberaad 2014: Managers sing praises of frontier markets
Emerging market debt (EMD) has matured and could now act as a “useful addition” to a pension fund’s fixed income portfolio, according to Roy Scheepe, senior client portfolio manager at ING Investment Management.
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Aegon reaps benefits of Dutch residential mortgage boom
Syntrus Achmea, DMFCO also report strong growth in residential-mortgage vehicles
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Larger Dutch schemes pay more for asset management, survey shows
LCP reveals findings of survey on Dutch pension funds’ asset management fees
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Pension fund for Dutch vets moves to shore up dwindling support
Occupational scheme for veterinary surgeons to introduce new pension plan
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Dutch pension fund to invest 5% of assets in residential mortgages
Asset class offers better returns than euro-denominated bonds against ‘very limited’ additional risk, scheme says
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Printing industry fund PGB returns insufficient for indexation
Dutch scheme says quarterly returns of 3.8% not sufficient to boost coverage. as it falls below 105%
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Dutch engineering firms to merge into multi-company fund
Planned consolidation of scheme assets follows mergers of Royal Haskoning and DHV in 2012
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NewsPostNL scheme gains 3.3% in third quarter, as TNO returns 4.6%
Dutch schemes continue to report decline in funding, despite robust returns across asset classes
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Funding drop of at least 3 percentage points ahead, Dutch schemes warned
Decline comes as interest rates contine to slide, in wake of worsening funding at largest Dutch funds
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Cleaning scheme Orsima in merger talks with industry-wide fund
Scheme cites comparatively high cost per paticipant as driving force behind the negotiations to join €2.9bn BPF Schoonmaak
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KLM scheme to divest from Russia
€7bn pension scheme cites both market and country risk as reasons for divestment as it announces quarterly returns
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Low interest rates drag Dutch schemes back into underfunded positions
Three of Netherlands’ largest pension funds fail to achieve minimum funding, with participants ‘paying price’ for Europe’s low rates
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New HBS approach to increase transparency – Clifford Chance
Dutch Pensions Federation sceptical of EIOPA’s principles-based approach to holistic balance sheet
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Dutch government makes FTK concessions on indexation, investment policies
State secretary secures majority on proposals for new financial assessment framework with support from opposition parties
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PFZW trustee blasts proposals for new financial assessment framework
Current proposals unlikely to restore confidence in Dutch pensions system, academic warns
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Dutch asset manager PGGM to cut 200 jobs in major reorganisation
Company does not rule out possibility of forced redundancies in bid to cut costs, increase ‘battle-readiness’
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NewsDutch lawmakers question inter-generational impact of new FTK
MPs call for clarification after new study contradicts government’s previous impact assessment
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NewsIndividual DC would save Dutch pension system, academic says
Proposals of state secretary Jetta Klijnsma an ‘incomplete, very complex’ mixture, Bas Jacobs argues
