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The Netherlands: Pensions Architects - Holland Financial Centre

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Total assets under management amount to approximately€ 1.7 billion.<strong>The</strong> participation in one or more of the sector portfolios isintended for Dutch pension funds. We have deliberately chosento be highly transparent in our strategy, processes, managementactivities, communication to the investment communityand reporting.Pension funds are free to allocate their investments at their owndiscretion in one or more of the sector portfolios. Joining, leavingand switching sectors is flexible and can be done quarterlyat competitive and low costs, without fee charges.<strong>The</strong> management organization has a strong alignment ofinterest with its shareholders because it is integrated with theportfolios. It delivers the performance at management costsof 33 basis points of the assets under management. Fromits inception, Altera Vastgoed has been one of the most costeffi cient real estate funds in the <strong>Netherlands</strong>. Property managementis outsourced.<strong>The</strong> performance is benchmarked against the IPD/ROZ sectorindex for standing investments on a rolling five year basis.<strong>The</strong> fund has a tax effi cient structure (fi scal investment institution)and has a core or low risk policy, which means that investmentsare being effected on a whole equity basis, without usingleverage and by excluding the risks of project development. Thismeans for pension funds that Altera has an indirect investmentstructure with the return-risk characteristics of direct real estate.Twenty seven Dutch pension funds participate as shareholder inAltera Vastgoed by the end of 2011. <strong>The</strong> fund has been awardedby Investment & <strong>Pensions</strong> Europe/ Real Estate in 2010 and 2011as “Best institutional investor in Benelux and France” and in2010 as “Best in-house investment team/best pension fundownedasset manager”.Drs. René Hogenboom MRICS, CEOrene.hogenboom@alteravastgoed.nlAPGGustav Mahlerplein 3, 1082 AM AmsterdamP.O. Box 75283, 1070 AG Amsterdam<strong>The</strong> <strong>Netherlands</strong>www.apg.nl42

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