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Dutch pension funds back reform program
High-profile Dutch pension funds and their service providers have come out in support of an agreement to radically reform the country’s pension system.
SAM RILEYJune 22, 2011
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Funds seed for the future
Two major pension funds from the Netherlands and Canada – ABP and OMERS – have seeded an innovation and technology program to invest in their domestic knowledge economies. Called inkef capital, it has already begun searching for the success stories of the future.
SIMON MUMMESeptember 8, 2010
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Dutch giant see-saws to recovery
The precarious seesaw that is pension fund asset-liability management is demonstrated in the latest results of the giant Dutch pension fund, ABP, with the fund’s coverage ratio falling, despite positive investment returns, and the fund being only slighly ahead of its recovery schedule. In the first six months of this year the fund’s pension liabilities […]
Amanda WhiteJuly 21, 2010
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ABP supports innovation with incubator investment
Over the next few years the €180 billion ABP will invest 2 per cent of capital to innovative assets and strategies under the broad direction of innovation. One such investment has been an allocation to the incubator company, IMQubator, which invests in investment managers with innovative ideas and strategies. Amanda White spoke with chief investment […]
Amanda WhiteDecember 9, 2009
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ABP to submit recovery plan as coverage ratio falls 50%
ABP, the world’s third largest pension fund, faces serious underfunding as a result of the financial crisis and will have to submit a recovery plan to De Nederlandsche Bank by March 31.
SIMON MUMMEFebruary 11, 2009
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ABP sticks to plan and active management…
While many pension funds have fled to safety in recent months due to the turmoil in global markets, pulling their capital out of equities and into bonds and cash, the Dutch pension giant ABP has not felt compelled to follow that course, preferring to stick to its original strategy, as designed in 2006.