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.
As the credit crisis continues to wreak havoc with financial institutions balance sheets and new credit and market risks appear to lurk around every corner, the search for optimal asset management strategies has reached new highs.