All articles by Leen Preesman – Page 94
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Robeco performance sparks Rabo pension review
[16:45 CEST 30-10] NETHERLANDS - The €11.4bn Rabobank pension fund has decided to divide its equity portfolio across several managers, following disappointing performance from Robeco.
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Philips' Dutch pensions funding recovers to 126%
[14:00 CEST 30-10] NETHERLANDS - The €13.4bn Dutch pension fund of electronics giant Philips returned 7.2% on its investments at the end of the third quarter 2009 .
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NewsABP's Nijpels could resign over DSB role
NETHERLANDS - Ed Nijpels, chairman of the €180bn civil service pension scheme ABP, said he will resign if investigations into the collapsed DSB bank reveal facts that could hamper his work at ABP.
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ING to divest investment management
[16:15 CET 26-10] NETHERLANDS - ING will split its banking and insurance businesses and divest all of its asset management operation within four years.
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Dutch pension giants report strong recovery
[16:00 CEST 22-10] NETHERLANDS - Recovering equity markets and well-performing investments in listed property and high-yield bonds were the main contributors to a strong 8% recovery during the third quarter for pension funds PfZW, PMT and PME.
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VB to tackle pension cost misconceptions
[16:00 CEST 21-10] NETHERLANDS – VB, the representative body for Dutch industry-wide pension funds, said it will step up its efforts to explain the true value of collective pension arrangements after a survey revealed consumers think costs are much higher than in reality.
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DNB rejects ANWB scheme’s recovery plan
[16:15 CEST 19-10] NETHERLANDS - Pensions regulator De Nederlandsche Bank has rejected a fourth recovery plan from the €640m pension fund of motorists’ lobbying organisation ANWB.
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Dutch MPs reach a deal to raise retirement age to 67
[16:55 CEST 16-10] NETHERLANDS - The Dutch coalition political parties have agreed to raise to official retirement age for the state pension AOW in two steps from 65 to 67 in 2025.
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SBZ in talks with Syntrus Achmea
[15:50 CEST 13-10] NETHERLANDS - SBZ, the €2.2bn pension fund for Dutch care insurer employees, is in exclusive talks with Syntrus Achmea to contract out its benefits administration as well as its trustee support office.
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NewsCall for Dutch self-employed to stay in pension funds
[17:20 CEST 06-10] NETHERLANDS - Self-employed individuals should be given the legal right to temporarily stay in the pension fund of their former employer so they may save for a pension, a Dutch academic expert has suggested.
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Reinsured Dutch schemes given leeway on recovery plans
[16:00 CEST 30-09] NETHERLANDS - Reinsured pension schemes with a shortfall caused by credit risk at a reinsurer are not required to submit a recovery plan before 1 April 2010, the pension regulator De Nederlandsche Bank has announced.
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Interest hedge lowers Dutch housing fund's Q2 return
[17:00 CEST 09-09] NETHERLANDS - The €4.4bn pension fund for housing corporations (SPW) saw its returns on investments of 7.1% in the second quarter adversely affected by its large interest hedge on liabilities.
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Dutch cover ratios return to 107% - Hewitt
[15:00 CEST 04-09] NETHERLANDS - The cover ratio of the average Dutch pension fund rose to 107% by the end of August, after reaching an absolute low of 90% in early March, consultancy firm Hewitt Associates has claimed.
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Parliament seeks balance on Dutch pension boards
[15:30 CEST 03-09] NETHERLANDS - MPs in the Dutch parliament have rejected calls for a higher number of pensioner members on pension scheme boards and instead argued lobbying groups should be better represented at industry-wide pension funds.
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Dutch asset managers can opt for supervision
[17:25 CEST 02-09] NETHERLANDS - The Dutch government has offered local asset managers the option of a voluntary supervisory regime. The aim is to increase their attractiveness to foreign institutional investors.
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Dutch retirement age should be 68 - economist
[16:50 CEST 26-08] NETHERLANDS - An economist has claimed the official retirement age for the state pension AOW should be raised beyond the government’s proposed retirement age of 67 and by an extra year to 68, to meet growing life expectancy in the Netherlands.
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Roelandt returns as Samco CIO
[16:00 CEST 26-08] GLOBAL - Samco, the asset manager of pension funds for energy giant Shell, has appointed Piet Roelandt as chief investment officer.
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Horeca pension losses spark passive move
[15:00 CEST 24-08 NETHERLANDS - The €2.5bn pension fund for the hotel and catering sector (PH&C) has changed its asset management approach from active to mainly passive.
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Dutch pensions up share in local funds
[16:55 CEST 20-08] NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds increased their share in Dutch investment funds during the second quarter of this year to two-thirds of the market, which in turn amounted to €241bn, according to pensions regulator De Nederlandsche Bank.
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Dutch insurers failing pensions duty of care - AFM
[15:30 CEST 20-08] NETHERLANDS - Many pension insurers are falling short in their duty of care in situations where contracts offer policyholders freedom of choice on investments, the communications watchdog Authority Financial Markets (AFM) has claimed.
