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People moves: Danish chief to retire after 21 years at academic pension fund
Hymans Robertson, TPT, Aon, Franklin Templeton, Rabobank Pensioenfonds, Swedish Pensions Agency, P+, Fidelity International
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Rabobank Pensioenfonds moves away from enhanced indexing
NETHERLANDS – The €9.1bn Rabobank Pensioenfonds has adjusted its equity investments away from advanced indexing following a recent review.
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Dutch pension funds move hundreds of billions in assets to mandates
Investing via mandates makes it easier for pension funds to implement their sustainability policies
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Rabobank pension fund indexes pensions by 6.2%
The pension scheme is the first Dutch fund to provide indexation based on this year’s inflation figure
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Rabobank pension fund continues serial underperformance
The fund will replace its disappointing factor investing strategy with a passive portfolio
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People moves: UK railways scheme completes internal property team
FCA, RPMI Railpen, Rabobank Pensioenfonds, AFM, TOBAM, P-Solve, Penfida, Harvest, Lazard, AXA, Legal & General, Capzanine, OMGI, ALFI Partners
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Friday people roundup [updated]
Rabobank Pensioenfonds, Achmea, Storebrand Asset Management, JLT Employee Benefits, BNP Paribas, Impax Asset Management, Craigmore Sustainables, Dorsey & Whitney, NVP, UBS Global Asset Management
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ING scheme delays indexation decision because of COVID-19
The fund could tap into a €265m emergency reserve fund
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Dutch pension funds to engage with palm oil maker
The initiative will focus on human rights, labour conditions and environment
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Investors remain unconvinced on financial benefits of diversity
Some major asset owners are concerned that focusing too much on workforce diversity could put them in breach of their fiduciary duty
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Active management fails to deliver added value for Rabobank scheme
Dutch bank’s pension fund says its factor-based equity allocation lagged its benchmark by 2.25 percentage points in 2018
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: ‘Our objective is clear’
Often when an investor starts to explore ‘smart beta’ – alternative weighting systems for equity portfolios and benchmarks – it signals some dissatisfaction with traditional active management, traditional market cap-weighted benchmarks, or both. Not so in the case of the Rabobank Pensioenfonds.
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Netherlands roundup: €25bn Rabobank scheme preps accrual cut
Plus: Total scheme weighs industry-wide fund for consolidation
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Pension fund for Rabobank appoints Bernard Walschots as CEO
Dutch pension fund’s CIO succeeds Jos Dirks
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Pension fund for Rabobank suffers from equity hedge
Returns largely offset by rising interest rates, equity market hedge
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Rabobank scheme divests equity in favour of bonds, credit
Currency hedge contributing 3.1 percentage points to overall return of 7.5%
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People moves: FRR names supervisory board chair
FRR, Franklin Templeton, Mercer, HSBC Global Asset Management, Veritas, AllianceBernstein, Arabesque S-Ray, Eumedion, De Nationale APF, ASR, PGB, Hermes, Netspar, Sampension, Rabobank, Kempen, UBS, Aegon, LOIM
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Transport scheme Vervoer appoints Marjolein Sol as CIO
Industry veteran to succeed Patrick Groenendijk, who moves to Northern Trust
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Rabobank pension fund to focus attention on equity hedging
Scheme attributes 8 percentage points of 17% annual return to combined hedges
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Indexation ambition
Nina Röhrbein interviews Bernard Walschots, CIO of Rabobank’s Dutch pension fund