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...In agreement with Nordea, ABP, the biggest Dutch pension fund, concluded in February that the Israeli banks “do not act in breach of international laws and regulations”....
...Both ABP, the biggest Dutch pension fund, and Nordea Investment Management, the large Nordic fund house, have since announced that they will remain invested in the Israeli banks, contradicting PGGM’s stance...
...ABP, the world’s third-largest pension fund with €300bn of assets, concluded that the banks “do not act in breach of international laws and regulations, and that there are no judicial rulings that should...
...Another strand of the post-crisis regulatory clampdown is acutely felt at APG, which manages the assets of Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, at €297bn the world’s third-largest pension fund, and six other Dutch...
...Among those is the Netherlands’ APG, which manages €325bn on behalf of Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP – the world’s third-largest pension fund, covering 2.8m Dutch civil servants – and six other Dutch schemes...
...ABP and PGGM, the leading Dutch pension funds that pioneered commodities investment in the early 2000s, are part of that trend....
...Signatories to the letter included APG, manager of ABP, the third-largest pension fund in the world; PGGM, the Dutch healthcare fund; and the Shell and Unilever staff pension funds....
...ABP, one of Europe’s biggest pension funds with about €180bn in assets, has invested $180m in microfinance and says it has raised its commitment by $40m this year....
...Compare and contrast Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung (NAEV), one of the biggest German pension plans, with the largest Dutch plan, Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP....
...Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, the Netherlands-based pension sponsor servicing 2.7m Dutch education and government workers, did not avoid the rollercoaster....
...The commodities portfolio of Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PGGM) reached €4.8bn, or about 5.5 per cent of its total assets, at the end of 2007....
...PGGM and the Dutch ABP pension fund were the earliest proponents of commodity investment within the pension fund community....
...Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management, Hermes of the UK and Dutch duo ABP and PGGM, which collectively manage assets of $765bn – more than $100bn of which is invested in the US – have told the Securities...
...Roderick Munsters is Chief Investment Officer of Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, the Dutch government and educational sector pension fund...
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