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Two Dutch pension funds outline plans for defined contribution transition
Two schemes explain how they intend to transform into DC plans.
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Dutch medical specialists: focus on healthy pensions
Marcel Roberts (right), CIO, and Ravien Sewtahal, investment manager of SPMS, the Dutch pension fund for medical specialists, talk to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about risk management and sustainability
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Dutch roundup: SPMS, Vervoer
Pension fund for medical consultants attributes YTD loss to fixed income holdings
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Dutch roundup: SPMS, SPW, ExxonMobile, Hoogovens
Pension fund for medical consultants returns 25% thanks to extensive interest hedge
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Dutch ‘early bird’ schemes delay pension transition plans
Pension funds that had planned to transition to the new DC system in 2024 are delaying their plans due to lack of capacity with their administrators
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Pension fund for Dutch medical specialists indexes pensions by 3.7%
Today’s record-high inflation did not play a role in the decision to provide more indexation
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SPMS reorganises 'disappointing' alpha portfolio
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension fund reduces number of managers after six years of poor results.
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People moves: Elo finds new CEO in Veritas chief Pettersson
Elo, Veritas, SPMS, IHS Markit, Federated Hermes, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, ABP, UBS Asset Management
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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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First-half returns at Dutch scheme SPMS lifted by interest rates
Pension fund for medical consultants returns 1.8% over 2013
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Japanese equities return 17.5% over first quarter at SPMS
NETHERLANDS – Pension fund for Dutch medical consultants reports overall Q1 return of 2.75%.
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SPMS considers APG and BlackRock as new providers
NETHERLANDS - The €5bn pension fund for Dutch medical consultants, SPMS, is planning to swap its present pension provider and asset manager Doctors Pension Funds Services (DPFS) for two larger players.
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SPMS pension fund grants 3% indexation despite underfunding
Board says matching standard inflation compensation is both 'achievable and responsible'.
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Dutch pension fund SPMS to increase pension accrual by a third
€5.5bn scheme to increase accrual in bid to offer fully fledged pension arrangements.
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APG struggles with 2027 pension transition deadline
Its own planning schedule is hard to reconcile with demands set by the regulator, according to the Netherlands’ largest pension administrator
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SPMS saw cover ratio drop by a third
[16:30 CEST 23-07] NETHERLANDS - The €4.2bn pension fund for medical consultants SPMS returned –16.2% on investments in 2008 and saw its cover ratio drop from 146% to 98%.
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SPMS awards Aviva Investors €350m unlisted property mandate
GLOBAL – The €5.5bn occupation pension fund for Dutch medical consultants (SPMS) has appointed UK firm Aviva Investors as manager of its unlisted property.
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Strong return raises SPMS cover ratio by 20%
[17:00 CET 25-01] NETHERLANDS - The €5bn pension fund for medical consultants SPMS saw its cover ratio rise by almost 20 percentage points last year on the back of a 17% return.
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SPMS returns –4.9% in first half
[11:00 CEST 24-07] NETHERLANDS - The €5.2bn pension fund for medical consultants SPMS suffered market turbulence in the first half of this year, like many other pension funds, and saw its return drop –4.9% as a result.
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OPF’s Steenvoorden leaves for SPMS
NETHERLANDS – Jeroen Steenvoorden, director of the Dutch company pension fund association OPF, has been appointed managing director of medical specialist pension fund SPMS.