Info

Robeco, established in Rotterdam in 1929, offers investment products and services to institutional and private investors worldwide. It has EUR 142 billion in assets under management (at 31 December 2006). The product range encompasses equity and fixed-income investments, money-market and real-estate funds and alternative investments, such as private equity, hedge funds and structured products. The various strategies are managed from Rotterdam (head office), Paris, Boston and New York. To service institutional and third-party distribution clients, Robeco has offices in Bahrain, Belgium, Germany, France, Japan, Poland, Spain, the United States and Switzerland. Robeco has a bank license in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, where it can sell its products straight to private clients. Transtrend in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Harbor Capital Advisors in Chicago, USA are part of the Robeco group. Furthermore, Robeco holds interests in SAM Group (64%) in Zurich, Switzerland; and AIM (49%) in Rijmenam, Belgium. Robeco is part of Rabobank Group, one of the few retail banks with the highest credit ratings from Moody's and Standard & Poor's. Furthermore, within the banking sector, Rabobank has the highest sustainability cluster score, which is used to assess an organization's people and environmental friendliness.