Amsterdam/Zeist, 9 April 2025 – ING Pension Fund has appointed Achmea Investment Management as its strategic advisor for impact investing. Achmea IM will advise ING Pension Fund on the realisation of impact ambitions with a focus on the themes of climate, nature and health. The framework focuses on private markets. With this, both parties expand their existing cooperation. Achmea IM and ING Pension Fund have been working together on socially responsible investment (SRI) since the second quarter of 2024.

Accelerating impact investing
Achmea Investment Management works with Impact Orange Partners, which specializes in impact investing for institutional investors, with a focus on biodiversity. This is in line with Achmea IM’s strategy to accelerate impact investing through collaboration with other parties.

The choice for Achmea IM came about after a careful orientation and selection process. Wim van Iersel, Executive Director of ING Pension Fund: “By choosing Achmea IM, our fund is taking the next step towards making its investments more sustainable.”

Maureen Schlejen, Chair of the Board of Achmea IM, is pleased with the choice of ING Pension Fund for Achmea IM as an impact advisor. “Impact investing is one of our strategic spearheads and is becoming increasingly important. Together with our pension fund clients, we strive for demonstrable impact that goes hand in hand with financial returns. During the selection process, it turned out that our ambitions in the field of impact investing are very similar. We are proud of the recognition by Dutch pension funds and thank ING Pension Fund for their trust in us as an impact advisor.”