I bounced back and forth between checking the grill and getting the meat ready. Pretty soon I’d be cooking … or so I thought. When I returned, the coals were turning white and the needle on the grill’s temperature sensor was rising. I then placed the lighter fluid a safe distance from the grill and went into the house to check on the meat. The coals started to burn well and it looked like I had a good fire. I arranged all of the charcoal into a little pyramid at the bottom of the grill, added lighter fluid and lit it. I was in my backyard, preparing my grill to barbeque some steaks and chicken. It was a four-day weekend - and about two days after the customary holiday safety briefing. But I’ve learned that you’re never too old or experienced to do something stupid. So why continue to sit through these classes? I’m an older guy, I’ve been married most of my career and I do not fall into any of the high-risk categories. In fact, it had gotten to the point where I could predict what the presenter was going to say. However, after 18 years of sitting through the same safety classes over and over again, they tend to become mundane. We pass these benefits on to our funds and their participants, thus contributing to stable long-term returns and low costs.FORT STEWART, Ga. On top of that, our scale empowers us to negotiate attractive conditions. And they can take advantage of our access to great investors, specialist investment options, and mandates with external asset managers. Thanks to this global spread, pension funds and their participants can take advantage of extensive local investment expertise. We have a global presence, with APG offices in Amsterdam, Heerlen, Brussels, New York, and Hong Kong, as well as satellite sites in Beijing and Shanghai. Although APG is and remains an active investor, in this way we meet the wishes of smaller funds in particular to be able to implement their sustainable & responsible investment policy in a cost-effective manner. This, in turn, allows us to operate very cost-efficiently.ĪPG also currently supplies index products that emphatically match the sustainability ambitions of Dutch pension fund clients and are actively managed by us. As a result, we have the in-house expertise to be able to manage approximately 75% of our assets internally. For every possible investment category, we have a dedicated group of highly educated specialists. Our Asset Management unit is home to over 700 highly educated and highly experienced investment professionals. Being one of the world’s largest pension investors empowers us to set more requirements and, whenever necessary, get companies to comply with sustainability criteria. By managing the trusted assets in this way, and given the enormous scale of the assets we manage, we wield the kind of clout that enables us to really put sustainable investment into practice. We pursue an active investment policy for our funds. Major clout through scale and a global presence So that we can always ensure a good and affordable pension. To manage these assets as responsibly as possible, it is our ambition to achieve attractive and sustainable investment returns for our customers, in a responsible way. At the end of June 2022, the assets we manage for our pension funds and their 4.8 million participants in total represented a value of approximately 553 billion euros.

APG is one of the world’s largest pension investors.

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