Dutch pension fund faced challenges after global financial crisis caused market benchmarks to plummet. NN Investment Partners worked with the pension fund to develop a new total return investment concept focused on managing total portfolio risk rather than benchmarks. This became very successful for the pension fund and strengthened NN's partnership with them. It also helped NN further develop its multi-asset total return approach and better serve other clients.

1. Multi-Asset
Partnerships
A true partnership is built on needs, not
benchmarks. And when we help our partners
meet their needs, we sometimes make
breakthroughs that benefit ourselves and our
other partners as well.
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2. Dutch pension fund’s challenges inspires NN Investment
Partners to create a new investment concept.
The challenge
Our approach
Value to our partner
In the wake of the global financial crisis and the ensuing shock to markets, the client was becoming
increasingly concerned about investment strategies based on benchmark-based performance
measurement. Some market benchmarks had recently plummeted by percentages well into double
digits, making the client more and more inclined to seek new ways of managing total portfolio risk.
We went back to the drawing board. We identified the client’s needs for the future, and we re-
designed our way of looking at and assessing investment returns. The client became one of our first
to adapt our new total return concept, and our partnership moved to a higher level. Two-way
communication has become almost non-stop as both sides keep one another abreast of
developments on each end; our relationship has gone beyond “active” and has become
“interactive”.
Since adapting our approach, the client has developed a strong name among its participants. We
have delivered on our promises. Moreover, we have also reaped the benefits of this rewarding and
symbiotic partnership. In large part due to our having developed a new approach for this client --
who stimulated our thinking and was in turn willing to take our advice on board -- we are now very
strong in Multi Asset Total Return and better able to serve other clients as well.

3. About NN Investment Partners
NN Investment Partners is the asset manager
of NN Group N.V., a publicly traded corporation.
NN Investment Partners is head-quartered in
The Hague, The Netherlands.
On April 7, 2015, we officially changed our name
from ING Investment Management to NN Investment
Partners. Our name is new yet we are the same
company we have always been: one with a
successful history of client-focused asset
management extending back to 1845.
NN Investment Partners manages in aggregate
approximately EUR 184 bln* (USD 206 bln*) in assets
for institutions and individual investors worldwide.
Employing over 1.100 staff, we are active in 16
countries across Europe, Middle East, Asia and U.S.
*Figures as of 30 June 2015
For more information on our investment strategies
or our mutual funds, please contact us or visit
www.nnip.com for more information.
We have always felt that lasting partnerships and the best results are built
around making clients’ challenges our challenges. For different organisations,
getting the most out of investments in a responsible way means different things.
At NN Investment Partners, we focus wholly on what this means for you and
provide the solutions that meet your needs.
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