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Finance For Hockey: The sponsoring platform for financial services providers that target the Dutch institutional market. |
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‘Off Ice On Topic’ Event - March 14th 2016 - Huize Frankendael - Amsterdam - Event Topic: “Addressing Non Plain Vanilla Betas to Survive the Low Yield Environment” |
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On March the 14th 2016 we had our second ‘Off Ice on Topic’ event. The event topic was: “Addressing Non Plain Vanilla Betas to Survive the Low Yield Environment”
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The low yield environment forces institutional investors to think outside the box. Specially for Dutch pension funds the low yield environment is challenging since regulation and reserve requirements are constraining them. They can not change their asset mix in a rigorous way and can only apply limited changes. Given these constrains they have to find their way to survive the low yield environment.
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Presentations were given by:
Qualitas - Andrew Schwartz - Group Managing Director
Wellington - Kent Stahl - Director of Investment Strategy and Risk
Achmea IM - Raymond Verstraelen - Head of Sovereign Fixed Income
Corestone - Paul van Gent - CIO
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About Finance For Hockey... Together with business partners and friends in the financial services industry van Stuijvenberg Financial Services started Finance For Hockey. Finance For Hockey is a sponsoring and networking platform for financial services providers that target the Dutch institutional market. The platform has a non profit setup and uses all revenues to support the Dutch top league (ice) hockey team Kemphanen. The sponsoring platform’s focus is on asset managers, brokers, consultants, custodians and recruitment firms. Every season Finance For Hockey organizes an ‘Off Ice on Topic’ event where our technical director Mark Visschers kicks off with a 2 minute update on the team. After this update the sponsors will present followed by drinks & networking time. For the presentations the focus is on the content and not on the product. Our first event took place on the first of June 2015. The event topic was ‘Fixed Income Smart Beta’. The second event took place in march 2016 and it’s topic was ‘Addressing Non Plain Vanilla Betas to Survive the Low Yield Environment’. Both events were held in Amsterdam at Huize Frankendael and were a great success. The presentations can be downloaded here. The picture below was taken at at Huize Frankendael during our first event in June 2015. |
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Although our main focus is on content, networking and the ‘Off Ice on Topic’ events we of course also go and see matches. We periodically invite sponsors and their relations to come and see a match. Also we organize informal dinners with sponsors and friends in the industry. On September the 9th 2015 we had an amazing dinner with NHL legend Ken Baumgartner. Ken Baumgartner played in the NHL for 12 seasons, was assistant coach for the Boston Bruins and vice president of the NHL players association. Now Ken Baumgartner works for one of our key sponsors who helped to organize this special dinner. |
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Finance For Hockey looks back at successful 3rd institutional investor event! On March 14th 2017 we had our 3rd institutional investor event. This year the theme was: 'Exploring Opportunities Now Everyone is Looking for Yield' |
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We had 4 asset managers presenting their story: _______________________________________ AchmeaIM Commodities & the search for yield Ralph Sandelowsky _______________________________________ Qualitas Construction Debt An Outstanding Risk Adjusted Return Andrew Schwartz _______________________________________ TwentyFour Asset Management Opportunities in European Asset Backed Securities Rob Ford _______________________________________ Wellington Management Global Impact "The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities" Louise Kooy-Henckel _______________________________________
We want to thank all attendees and sponsors for attending the event. A special thank you goes to Jolanda de Groot of Financial Investigator who hosted the event, to Marc Visschers - the number one hockey coach of the Netherlands - for his great kick-off and to Camiel de Vries of Wellington who brought a true 'Kemphaan' for all attendees.
Next year's event will be on Wednesday March 14th 2018. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor please contact us at: events@financeforhockey.com |