NETHERLANDS – PGGM, the Dutch health care pension fund, has named Jaap van Dam as head of strategy and research.

Van Dam took up the appointment at the start of this month.

“Jaap van Dam joined PGGM on February 12005 as head of inhouse equities, having formerly worked for ABN Bank, MeesPierson and Zanders & Partners,” the €69.3bn Zeist-based scheme said.

Van Dam is also a member of the executive committee of the Netherlands Association of Financial Analysts, or VBA.

Earlier this year van Dam told Het Financieele Dagblad that there was no need to formally free market research from investment banks and that the fund has started investigating if the present practice can just be improved.

Earlier this month PGGM and its fellow Dutch scheme ABP awarded a joint €11bn private equity mandate to AlpInvest Partners.

And on December 14 fund chairman Karel Noordzij floated the idea of possibly paying pensions partly in kind.

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