Kempen wins Institutional Investor Benelux Award

The prize was awarded during the Benelux Alternatives Summit in Amsterdam. The annual event was attended by senior investment officials from leading pension funds, foundations, family offices and fiduciary managers in the Benelux region, to discuss investing in alternative assets. Prior to the event, professionals in the financial sector could submit their votes in several categories.

On collecting the award, Edzard Potgieser, Private Markets Director at Kempen said: ‘This award is a recognition of the knowledge and experience of our large alternatives investment team, who deal with a wide variety of investment categories.

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2019, 18 June

Kempen European Private Equity Fund reaches over €120 million after second closing

Amsterdam, 18 June 2019. The private equity fund of Kempen Capital Management (Kempen), the Kempen European Private Equity Fund, has raised over €45 million in the second closing on 14 June 2019. Following the second closing, the fund has a fund size of more than €120 million.

2019, 17 June

Asset Allocation update June

In the wake of a correction in May in which the prices of equities from industrialised countries lost over 5% and emerging market equities fell by nearly 10%, markets breathed a sigh of relief at the start of June. The growing willingness of the US central bank to cut interest rates helped the equity markets regain their footing, while the deal the US agreed with Mexico to tackle the refugee crisis, prompting the US not to impose higher import tariffs after all, also improved sentiment on the equity markets.

2019, 13 June

Salomons' Judgement

Is ‘elephant man’ Branko Milanovic right? Is too much inequality disastrous for democracy and does it create an static upper class?