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.

News & Knowledge

2020, 25 February

Global Impact Pool Quarterly

We are pleased to report on the fourth quarter of 2019 on Kempen’s Global Impact Pool in which we continued to deploy capital towards the Global Impact Pool’s mission, which is to make investments that positively contribute to solving global problems around the food, water and climate nexus and five Sustainable Development Goals.

2020, 25 February

Asset Allocation Update: Corona chaos

Having started in China, the new coronavirus has been spreading to more and more countries recently. In our monthly Asset Allocation update of February, we discussed the damage of the coronavirus to the Chinese and other Asian economies. In any case, as far as growth perspectives are concerned, the first quarter of 2020 can be considered ‘lost’, with China presumably showing economic contraction compared to the last quarter of 2019 and the worldwide growth momentum being cut in half. Increasing numbers of companies are reporting out-of-stock issues and production delays.

2020, 21 February

Kempen's Commentary

A central bank should make its own decisions and nobody should interfere, certainly not politics. President Donald Trump calling Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell “clueless” and the Fed “the problem” is unprecedented, right?