Foreign investments of Dutch institutional investors in equity fund shares units 2016

The source defines equity and investment fund shares or units as: "claims, which are -fully, or partly- entitled to a share in profits or in the own funds in case of liquidation excluding indirect property."

The source adds: "foreign investments relate to the residency of the borrowing party according article 1 of the Wet financiële betrekkingen buitenland (Std 1980, 321). The borrowing party is the foreign counterparty to which loans or deposits are granted. For shares and bonds quoted on the stock exchange, the borrowing party is the issuer."

Institutional investors are defined by the source as "units that invest capital that is acquired as a result of their activities. These activities are mainly the insurance of pensions and offering private investors opportunities to invest in selected risk profiles. The population of institutional investors contains pension funds, insurance corporations and non-MMF investment funds. The money market funds are excluded from the investment funds."

* The numbers provided are provisional.