All PFZW articles
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News
PFZW divests from Israel
€255bn Dutch healthcare fund has also sold investments in other Middle East countries as it is concerned about growing threat of conflict expansion in the region
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Calls for pension funds to sell investments linked to West Bank settlements
The trigger for the FNV statement was a ruling by the International Court of Justice last month, although the trade union did not name companies
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PFZW reports underperformance of SDG investments
Management fees for the Dutch healthcare scheme’s actively managed SDG equity mandate are also significantly higher
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PGGM offloads small pension fund clients
GP fund Huisartsen is by far the largest remaining client, with €1.5bn still invested with PGGM
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PFZW sells €600m in gambling stocks
The Dutch healthcare scheme decided to divest from the sector following a member survey
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Rising equity markets spike Dutch funding ratios
ABP and PFZW suffered losses on their government bond portfolios, however, as Dutch and German yields rose
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PFZW divests all but seven oil and gas companies
Dutch social care sector pension fund offloads final tranche of 310 oil and gas holdings worth €2.8bn
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Dutch pension funds write off Russian investments, except PFZW
The healthcare scheme keeps interests in more than twenty Russian companies on its balance sheet
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Dutch pension fund returns back in positive territory
But funding ratios mostly fell as four of the five funds indexed pensions
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Superior investment returns for largest Dutch pension funds – research
However, large funds’ higher investment returns are undone fully by their lower interest rate hedges
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Large Dutch pension funds to support PR campaign for DC switch
ABP, PFZW and PME will support a campaign by the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs to promote the switch from defined benefit to defined contribution pensions
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Equity returns boost Dutch funding ratios
Double-digit returns on listed equity more than compensated for investment losses on non-listed real estate for the Netherlands’ five largest pension funds
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PFZW adopts 50% absolute CO2 reduction target
The change of heart follows criticism of the Dutch health care scheme’s initial relative reduction goal
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People moves: Robeco bolsters institutional team with trio appointment
GSG, Candriam, AXA, ICG, PFZW, Robeco, Impax, Alecta, Nordnet, Finanstilsynet, LCP
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PFZW hit by big data breach
The revelation comes just days after fellow Dutch pension fund PME also suffered a huge data breach
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ABP sold Credit Suisse after fruitless engagement
Several large Dutch pension funds have sold their shares in the troubled bank in the last few years
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Dutch pension funds often vote against climate resolutions – study
Pension funds must get rid of their fear to be a nuisance to the companies they invest in, according to action groups Groen Pensioen and BothEnds
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PFZW sells another 78 oil and gas firms
The move is part of the Dutch healthcare scheme’s engagement programme with fossil fuel companies
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Passive and sustainable investing in EMD: hard to combine for small funds
EMD had long been considered the last frontier for passive investors, as the asset class was seen as insufficiently liquid and therefore hard to replicate
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Interest rate rises propel Dutch pension fund losses to record high
Pension funds in the Netherlands lost some €300bn on their interest rate hedges in 2022, according to estimates