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New homes target missed, fewer than 70,000 added to housing stock Photo: DutchNews.nl Last year, developers and housing associations added 69,322 new homes to the Netherlands’ housing stock, over 2,000 down on the 2019 total and below government targets. 2020 was also the first year since 2015 that the number of new homes coming on the market went down, according to new figures from national statistics office CBS. ‘We don’t know if the decline is due to the nitrogen and PFAS problems, or...

By Tjibbe Hoekstra2021-01-08T15:13:00+00:00 Fiduciary managers in the Netherlands have been forced to make the switch to video calling for selecting new external managers for their pension fund clients. However, they plan to at least partly switch back to physical meetings once the pandemic is over. Norges Bank Investment Management, the fund manager for the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, has reported dissatisfaction with the effectiveness of video conferencing when it came to making firs...

New chief speaks fondly of fallen Calgary officer Poll Yes All eyes were on Calgary at the turn of the New Year when the country learned of a police officer’s tragic death. During a New Year’s Eve traffic stop, 37-year-old Sgt. Andrew Harnett was dragged and killed by a fleeing SUV. He is the 12th Calgary police officer to die while on duty. Medicine Hat’s new police chief Mike Worden, who started his new role recently, served in Calgary for 25 years with the police force. He says he knew...