Jaap van Duijn, who will reach the age of 62 this December, will retire from Robeco on 1 October 2005. His retirement will mark the end of an impressive career at Robeco which started in 1983 when he became a member of the Board of Directors of the Robeco Group. He was a member of the highest management body until 2003, the year in which he resigned as member of the Management Board.
Over and above his activities in the field of management, Jaap van Duijn has spent his working life at the cutting edge of macro economics, science and investing and has held professorships at various universities. From 1998 until 2003 he was Robeco's Chief Investment Officer and in 1995 he also became fund manager of the fund Robeco N.V., a position which he handed over to Mark Glazener in 2003. From 2003 onwards Jaap van Duijn was the Robeco Group's Chief Strategist.
After leaving Robeco Jaap van Duijn will focus on his board memberships at social organizations and his role as an adviser in investment sciences.
About Robeco
Robeco provides discretionary asset-management products and services, as well as a complete range of mutual funds to a large number of institutional and retail clients worldwide. Robeco's product range encompasses fixed-income and equity investments, as well as balanced accounts, money-market funds and alternative investments.
Robeco distributes its funds for the retail market directly, and through other financial institutions. Several of its mutual funds, including the flagship Robeco N.V., are listed on major European stock exchanges such as Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt and London.
Robeco services its clients not only from its head office in Rotterdam but also from its European offices in Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. In the United States, Robeco has offices in New York, Chicago and San Francisco (Weiss, Peck & Greer), Boston (Boston Partners), White Plains (Sage Capital Management) and Toledo (Harbor Capital Advisors), and in the Middle East it has an office in Bahrain.
Robeco is the center for asset management with full operational independence within the Rabobank Group. The combination of the highest credit ratings from the major international rating agencies and the highest Sustainability Cluster Score within the banking sector reflects the high added value Rabobank has always offered its investors, members, clients and employees.