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

2019, 19 February

Private Markets Investor Letter

Following a successful fund launch in May 2018, we received over 66 million euros of capital in 2018. We used this to build up a well-spread portfolio in the four private-markets asset classes. We have committed to eight partnerships and we have also made two direct co-investments. In this report we will look further into the relevant activities.

2019, 18 February

Asset Allocation update February

A horrible December was followed by one of the best months of January in history. As far as we can tell this was the result of two things: better-than-expected earnings reports (although not-as-bad-as-we-feared may be a better way to put it) and a massive policy U-turn by the Federal Reserve.

2019, 15 February

Kempen European Private Equity Fund raised € 76 million in the first month

Amsterdam, 15 February 2019. The new private equity fund of Kempen Capital Management (Kempen), the Kempen European Private Equity Fund, has raised over € 76 million in the first closing. This investment fund, which focuses on small and lower mid-market private equity buy-outs in Europe, was launched in January of 2019.