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Dutch technology scheme PME eager for nuclear energy investment
‘The energy transition in the Netherlands is not going fast enough,’ says PME president Eric Uijen
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PME sells 112 companies for ESG reasons
The €54.6bn pension fund for the Dutch technology industry sold over €800m in shares as it adopted a new ESG screening policy
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PME Goes Back To The Future – PME Pensioenfonds
Marcel Andringa (pictured) of PME, the Dutch pension fund for the metal and electronics industry, talks to Tjibbe Hoekstra about the fund’s decision to ditch index investing and move to a more concentrated portfolio
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ABP and PME demand end to fossil fuel subsidies
The two Dutch pension funds signed a letter authored by Fossil Free Netherlands
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PME admin switch to TKP leads to sharp cost savings
The scheme also saw a drop in asset management costs thanks to lower performance fee payments to private equity managers
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Dutch pension scheme PME suffers huge data breach
Personal data of 95,000 members were leaked after a breach at a software supplier
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IPE Netherlands Briefing: Dutch Shell fund appoints fiduciary manager
Plus: PME pledges to invest in nuclear power plants; Pension funds accused of focusing excessively on sustainability in their investment policies
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Dutch pension funds invest €210m in biotech funds
Metal industry schemes PMT and PME each invest €100m in two funds, while textile industry fund MITT commits €10m
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PME and PMT invest another €150m in venture capital investor
The two Dutch pension schemes also invested €75m each in Innovation Industries’ previous tech-focused fund
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Major investors sign up to address plastic pollution
The Local Authority Pension Fund Forum, PMT and PME are among the 70 institutional signatories
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PME sets 50% CO₂ reduction goal for 2030
The metals and electronics industry scheme is the first Dutch fund to set an absolute CO2 interim reduction target
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Alternatives exposure drags on returns for Dutch metals schemes
PME has been increasing its exposure to private equity, real estate and forestry
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PME sells MN stake to PMT for €1
PMT already had an interest of almost 80% in the pension provider
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PME adapts fossil fuel exclusion policy after TV report
The fund claimed last year it had sold all its investments in fossil fuels, but had used exclusion criteria that were not stringent enough, PME has admitted
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PMT, PME ditch ‘authoritarian countries’ from EM index
The two Dutch pension funds have sold Egypt and Vietnam government bonds as a result of the policy change
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PME dumps fossil fuel investments
The pension fund for the metals sector and the technological industry is the first large Dutch scheme to divest entirely from fossil fuels
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PME: Divesting from fossil fuels in six weeks
A pension fund can sell and reinvest all its fossil fuels investments in less than two months, according to PME’s Marcel Andringa
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PME sees investment management costs rise by 28%
The bulk of the performance fees were paid to private equity managers
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Euronext chief calls on Dutch pension funds to invest more in small caps
René van Vlerken calls on pension schemes to divert part of their funding from large caps to small caps to support fundraising for smaller companies.