News & Knowledge

2019, 02 April

What if things go wrong?

Turbulence is the word doing the rounds in financial markets around the world. All the signs point to the next twelve months as being a challenging period with many different factors playing into investment decisions.

2019, 26 March

Small is Beautiful

Focus on Private Equity companies

2019, 20 March

March to a domestic bias

Many investment managers believe that you should avoid home bias when managing long term investments. Concentrating too much on your domestic market can leave you exposed to the changing fortunes of local economies. But here, Nikesh Patel, Head of Investment Strategy at UK Kempen Capital Management, argues that the unique nature of the UK’s capital markets means that pension funds are rightly showing more UK bias in their portfolios.

2018, 01 August

Total Cost of Ownership: A framework for ETFs

The indexing landscape has changed. Investors have four options when considering how to implement index mandates: index mutual funds (IMF), Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), derivatives or separate accounts. In this paper, we focus on ETFs and when and why it might potentially be more efficient from a cost perspective to use an ETF instead of an alternative wrapper.

2018, 30 May

White paper Infrastructure

Infrastructure comprises all the facilities that are crucial to the proper functioning of the economy and society. This includes toll roads, airports and ports, but also drinking water systems, power stations and wind farms. This makes infrastructure a highly diverse asset class. Compared to listed equity investments, for example, it is also a relatively defensive asset class. This is due to the stability of infrastructure assets and the essential nature of the related services.

2018, 08 March

White paper Long-term investing in public equity markets

Jaap van Dam and Lars Dijkstra authored a white paper for the 300 Club on the 'how to' of long-term investing.

2018, 26 January

White paper Private Equity

The aim of this white paper is to examine the characteristics, opportunities and advantages and disadvantages of private equity. We look at the European private equity market in more detail, for illustrative purposes. In this way we expect to contribute to a balanced discussion of this asset class.

2018, 16 January

White paper Real Estate

What can be the benefits of combining listed and non-listed real estate investments in a portfolio? This white paper aims to provide an answer to this question.

2017, 01 November

Dusk of Unconventional Monetary Policies for the Fed & the ECB

Like the light that dwindles at sunset, the central banks are now preparing to curtail their unconventional monetary policies. Now, the time is right for a review of how the rates were affected by such policies, as well as where the rates may trail in the future.

2017, 12 September

What to expect in a low spread environment

The European corporate bond market has performed very strongly in recent years. As a result, credit spreads have tightened to low levels and differences in the creditworthiness of companies are to a large extent no longer reflected in spread levels.

2017, 30 April

Whitepaper Direct lending

The aim of this paper is to examine the characteristics, risks, advantages and disadvantages of direct lending, to contribute to a balanced discussion of this asset class.

2019, 12 April

PNO Media selects Kempen as their fiduciary manager for the DC pension scheme

Kempen Capital Management N.V. (Kempen) has advised PNO Media, the pension fund for the creative industry, on issues such as risk attitude, strategic investment policy, and the overall design of a DC (defined contribution) pension scheme.

2019, 21 March

Kempen (Lux) Euro Credit Fund receives Morningstar Gold rating

Amsterdam, 21 March 2019. The Kempen (Lux) Euro Credit Fund has earned a Gold rating from Morningstar in the category of ‘European corporate bonds’. This is the highest attainable rating for an investment fund that is awarded by Morningstar analysts following an extensive, qualitative analysis.

2019, 13 March

Kempen European Private Equity Fund acquires a significant interest in APEM Ltd.

Amsterdam, 13 March 2019. The Kempen European Private Equity Fund has backed the management buyout of APEM Limited (‘APEM’), Europe’s leading independent environmental consultancy specialising in the aquatic environment and remote sensing.

2019, 28 February

Kempen European Private Equity Fund acquires an interest in DIT Holding

Amsterdam, 28 February 2019. The Kempen European Private Equity Fund has acquired an interest in DIT Holding B.V. (‘DIT Holding’). DIT Holding is market leader in the Benelux countries in the field of staffing and recruitment services.