Man on a Mission

摘要

Roderick Munsters is on a mission. Since takrning over as head of investments at ABP in the Netherlands just over two years ago, the 44-year-old has begun a far-reaching overhaul of the Dutch pension fund giant's €209 billion ($278 billion) portfolio. He is ramping up ABP's allocation to alternative investments from an already sizable 18 percent when he arrived to a whopping 26 percent by 2009, a move that will easily rank it among the world's biggest investors in alternatives. Munsters has launched a new internally managed hedge fund, raised allocations to commodities and plans to invest in timberland for the first time. He recently opened ABP's first outpost in Asia. Aggressive and farsighted, Munsters is also taking ABP's formidable reputation as a shareholder activist to new heights, leveraging the U.S. courts.