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One in four are now self-employed or have a flexible contract
A further 16% are on a short-term or flexible contract, the CBS says. This means over one quarter of the working population does not have a traditional, permanent employment contract. In 2002, 17% of workers were on flexible contracts or were ...
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Heineken’s The Negotiation Real Or Fake
offered a handful of men the opportunity to go to Champions League final at Wembley. How? By challenging their negotiation skills….with their ...
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Netherlands to keep producing top players
Dutch specialists believed that the Netherlands will keep producing top soccer players in the foreseeable future, based on the country's efficient youth training system. Just one year ago the Netherlands advanced to the FIFA World Cup final in South Africa. Wesley Sneijder, Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie are the names of the current stars of the national team. They are the successors of ...
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More bike parking at public transport stops in The Hague
The municipality of The Hague is investing 200.000 euros in installing an extra 288 bike parking stands and a further 10 bicycle lockers in the ...
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The Netherlands is one of Europes most gay-friendly nations
Alongside Belgium and the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands is the most gay-friendly country in Europe, a European Union investigation has ...
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Dutch cookie law to be watered down
Dutch rules requiring all websites to get express permission from visitors to use software known as cookies is to be watered down, economic affairs minister Henk Kamp has told parliament. MPs had urged the minister to take steps to stop the constant appearance of irritating popups on websites since the legislation came into effect last year. Cookies are small pieces of code which allow websites ...
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Update-Moodys updates on four Dutch RMBS deals involving ELQ Hypotheken N.V.
Mon May 20, 2013 4:49am EDT ELQ Hypotheken N.V. (ELQ) For the full text of this story please click the following ...
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Behind Dutch Headlines News webcast May 20 2013
Join the Dutch conversation this week: Healthcare fraud hits the Dutch Cabinet, as investigations begin into nursing homes: "Is grandma stealing your premiums?" Plus, find out if Limburg get to keep its ...
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Dutch pension funds need ‘firm measures’ to return to satisfactory funding levels
Firm measures are necessary to bring scheme funding levels of Dutch pension funds up to the minimum required funding ratio of 105 per cent within five years, warns De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) in its Annual Report 2008. DNB, which is responsible for safeguarding financial stability in the Netherlands, said the funding level at the end of 2008, which stood at 95 per cent, can be brought up ...
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Dutch pension funds sell off securities
EUR 26bn worth of securities were sold by Dutch pension funds in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to figures published by De Nederlandsche Bank. The funds carried out equities sales totalling almost €9bn, and disposed of €17bn worth of debt certificates such as bonds. Due to these sales, and to substantial price losses on the funds’ equity holdings, the value of ...
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Dutch tax authorities rule on landmark tax rebate for UK pension funds
UK pension funds are set to enjoy a €100million rebate from the Dutch tax authorities following a tax ruling, says the UK branch of KPMG. The professional services provider’s test claimant, Strathclyde Pension Fund, has brought a successful legal challenge against the Dutch tax authority for a levied ‘withholding tax’ (WHT) on dividend payments to tax exempt bodies ...
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Net worth of Dutch investment funds decreases further
The net worth of supervised Dutch investment funds fell by €6.4bn (eight per cent) in the third quarter of 2008 (Q3 2008), with De Nederlandsche Bank attributing losses to investment write-downs and net withdrawals by investors. Equity price falls of 11 per cent, which were in line with the worldwide drop in equity prices of 12 per cent, according to the MSCI World Index, was the ...
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Dutch pension funds receive €4.9bn in dividends over 11 months
Between April 2007 and March 2008, Dutch pension funds are reported as having received €4.9bn in dividends on quoted shares, according to De Nederlandsche Bank. Pension fund holdings of these quoted shares averaged at €195bn in that period, which excluded quoted shares held through mutual funds. The Bank said that dividend income is used for two things, either as a major ...
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Netherlands streets ahead in use of Liability Driven Investment
Sixty-one per cent of Dutch pension funds are currently employing a Liability Driven Investment (LDI) strategy, an increase of 18 per cent on last year’s figures. Fiduciary manager SEI revealed the results of a Global Quick Poll of the global pension fund space, surveying executives overseeing pensions in the US, UK, Hong Kong, Canada and the Netherlands. There was also an ...
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Slight growth in Dutch mutual funds
Dutch mutual funds expanded their share in Dutch household investments from 54 per cent to 55 per cent in the first quarter 2008, according to De Nederlandsche Bank. The Bank said the increase may be a turnaround in a declining trend, and sees the various measures taken since 2006 to improve the business climate for mutual funds in the Netherlands as beginning to take effect. However, ...
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Dutch pension liabilities fall
The value of the Dutch pension funds’ technical provisions stood at approximately €493bn at year-end 2007, a drop in liabilities of €14bn, according to De Nederlandsche Bank. Pension funds calculate these technical provisions in order to estimate what they are required to pay to future pensioners, and the size of this is dependent on factors such as capital market rates ...
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Dutch metal pension funds launch joint in SRI policy
The two Dutch pension funds for the metal industry, the €33bn Pensioenfonds Metaalelektro (PMT) and the €21.5bn Pensioenfonds Metaal en Techniek (PME), have launched a joint social responsible investment policy. In conjunction with asset manager and pension provider Mn Services, jointly owned by PME and PMT, the two funds have drawn eight lead principles from international ...
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Holland must do more to promote itself as pooling hub
Holland must do more to promote itself as a centre for international asset pooling, says a new report from the Netherlands, while also preserving the strength of the Dutch pensions ...
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Dutch financial confidence knocked by sub-prime crisis
Financial stability in the Netherlands is less favourable than it was six months ago, according to the DNB’s most recent assessment of the region. The Overview of Financial Stability (OFS), published by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), highlighted a recent period in the market when, triggered by the crisis in the US sub-prime mortgage market, liquidity evaporated in various credit ...
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Leading Dutch funds allocate €500m to clean technology
ABP and PGGM have re-inforced their commitment to sustainable investment with a joint mandate to invest in innovative, clean technology. The two largest pension funds in the Netherlands have appointed AlpInvest* to invest €500 million in innovative, clean technology in one of the largest mandates ever to be placed on the international private equity market. This is the first time ...
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Dutch funds respond to SRI embarrassment
Dutch pension funds have been shamed into smartening up their investment decisions after a current affairs TV programme in the Netherlands revealed that two of the largest funds were investing in US firms that produce cluster bombs and landmines. Dutch pension fund PGGM, the pension fund for the healthcare and social work sector, has since announced that it has stopped investing in these ...
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Dutch fund returns down says WM
Average returns for Dutch Pension funds in 2006 halved - from 14.8% in 2005 to 7.4% in 2006 – according to new performance figures by WM Performance Services (WM). Taking into account the consumer price index, which rose by 1.4%, this represents a real return of 5.9%, which is above the 10-year annualised real universe return of 5.2%, says the investment performance measurement ...
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Amsterdam and the Clash of Civilisations: is this city on the frontline?
There is a polarising pattern of insult and violence going round and round in Europe, and Amsterdam seems to be one of the cities leading the continent down the spiral toward a culture of intolerance toward everyone who isn't European.
The Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks is frequently in the media for his decisively controversial cartoons that seem to unremittingly try and provoke the Islamic communities across Europe. Just this week alone he was the target of two separate assassination plots that were to be carried out, interestingly, by two women who had converted to the religion he vilifies. Read more
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