Introduction
The Holland Financial Centre foundation is a joint initiative set up by organisations from throughout the financial sector. They include banks, insurers, trading firms, pension funds, asset managers, audit firms, law firms and the government. For a full list of the organisations that are associated with the foundation, go to the web page Participants.
As a joint venture, the purpose of the Holland Financial Centre is to strengthen the Dutch financial sector.
Holland Financial Centre
Amsterdam Trading Venue
The Amsterdam stock exchange is the oldest in the world. In 1602 the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) was the first company in the world that went public and The.. read more
Did you know?
Did you know that the first European options market was established in Amsterdam?
In 1978, for the first time in Europe it was possible to trade options on shares at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, following on the option introduction in Chicago a few years before.
In 1983, the AEX, the stock index for the Amsterdam stock exchange, was founded with the goal to provide a positive impetus for the option trading in Amsterdam. This made the Amsterdam AEX, the index of the largest Dutch shares, the first European index. Initially, the options had a maturity of a few months up to 5 years. Since 2007, it is also possible to trade in options with a maturity of one week. Since March 2008, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange offers as first in Europe options with a maturity of just one day.
Nowadays the Amsterdam option market is the second largest in Europe.
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Did you know that the sum of the assets of the Dutch pension funds represents a value of 130% compar
The Netherlands has a long history with pension funds. Thanks to this history, the Dutch citizens are not completely dependent on the government regarding financing retirement. Over the years, the Dutch population jointly built up a pension scheme value, invested through pension funds, worth 130% of national income. In doing so, The Netherlands, just behind Iceland, has relatively the highest pension value of all OECD countries. The addition of the value of individual pension contracts makes a total value of almost 140%.
Since this history and the size the Dutch pensions business has become a very mature industry with great experience and knowledge.
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