Fondsnieuws, the Dutch-language sister publication of InvestmentOfficer.lu, on Thursday was renamed as Investment Officer as it migrated to a new website, investmentofficer.nl, in order to better serve its subscribers in the Netherlands. With this migration, Investment Officer becomes a true Benelux media service for investment professionals, operating with a single brand for news and info services in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Fondsnieuws was first established on 28 August 2008 as a B2B platform for investment professionals in the Netherlands.
The editorial coverage remains based on three pillars:
- Sector developments
- Elucidating investment insights
- Independent expert opinions
The editorial teams in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg already cooperate closely on a daily basis. Some articles are shared among the three websites, especially those considered valuable for readers in the other countries.
Strong local focus
“A condition is that these articles have a universal relevance. The editors at Investment Officer have a strong focus on developments in their local markets,” said Cees van Lotringen, Editor-in-Chief of the platform.
In addition to news and background information, the Investment Officer platform offers daily access to insights, market views and opinions of more than 70 asset managers, semi-annual comparisons of model portfolios of major banks, and access to Morningstar’s database with more than 35.000 investment funds and ETFs.
Furthermore, the company hosts regular webinars and events, such as the Dutch Fondsevent, organised regularly since September 2008. Investment Officer also has initiated the Investment Management Club (IMC), which hosts knowledge exchange and networking events for independent asset managers such as for example a KYC masterclass.
Focus on subscribers and partnerships
Publisher Jasper Staring said Investment Officer connects and links together the industry as a whole: asset owners, asset managers and asset services providers.
“In Belgium we now have a reach of more than 75 percent, while this is above 90 percent in the Netherlands,” he said. “We only just started in Luxembourg, but here we also want to be above 75 percent within a few years. Our high-quality reach makes it attractive for asset managers to become a partner.”
Staring said that Investment Officer’s proprietary content proves to be so relevant for fund professionals that companies are increasingly opting for staff-wide access to the platform. “These corporate subscriptions are becoming increasingly important for our Benelux platform,” he said.
Initiative of FD Mediagroep
Investment Officer is an initiative of Amsterdam-based FD Mediagroep, which also publishes Dutch financial daily Het Financieele Dagblad, together with Cees van Lotringen and Jasper Staring as co-founders. It is the largest platform for investment professionals in the Benelux.
The editorial managers of the three national sites are Lenneke Arts in the Netherlands, Jurgen Vluijmans in Belgium and Raymond Frenken in Luxembourg.
The platform has been designed by Defigners, an agency based in Utrecht, the Netherlands that is also designed the widely used Dutch websites fd.nl and NOS.nl. Software developer FinFiles is responsible for the construction of the platform in the three countries where Investment Officer is active.
From Friday subscribers in the Netherlands will receive their newsletters from the email account investmentofficer.nl. Subscribers to the English-language Investment Officer Luxembourg service will continue to receive their daily Morning Call and twice-weekly IO Update from investmentofficer.lu.
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