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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 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.
 September 26, 2008
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