NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension assets managed by external managers soared by 21% in the year ended March 31 to €922bn ($1.3trn), a report by consultancy Bureau Bosch shows.
NETHERLANDS - Olaf Sleijpen, director of institutional clients at APG is leaving to start a new role at De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) at the start of 2011.
US/EUROPE - Pension funds from Europe and the US have been given the go-ahead to proceed with a securities fraud lawsuit against Bank of America and Merrill Lynch.
NETHERLANDS - Algemene Pensioen Groep NV, which manages about €250bn ($321bn) for the Netherland's largest pension fund, said it plans to increase its real estate investment in Asia as it seeks to benefit from the region's economic growth.
NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension fund manager APG said it plans to develop a formal policy surrounding environmental, social and governance factors for each asset class in 2010.
Giovanni Legorano speaks with Ronald Wuijster, managing director strategic portfolio management at APG Asset Management about its approach to fiduciary management and the problems associated with illiquid assets
Dutch pension experts ask whether trustees have shed too much responsibility, as Giovanni Legorano reports
The number of investors considering climate change policies as key to manager selection has doubled since 2007, but the actual integration of these policies into investment mandates has failed to take off, a report by the Institutional Investors Group...
EUROPE - The number of investors considering climate change policies as key to manager selection has doubled since 2007, but the actual integration of these policies into investment mandates has failed to take off, a report by the Institutional Investors...
UK/NETHERLANDS - Royal Bank of Scotland is nearing a deal to sell its European private equity portfolio to Alpinvest, a Dutch private equity fund owned by pension investors APG and PGGM, a person close to matter said.