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Bouwfonds Public Fund Management manages a number of public-private funds for community real estate in the Netherlands. The Fund is responsible for all activities carried out by, and for the benefit of, these funds. Public Fund Management is dedicated to providing financial support for community purposes such as spatial planning, urban renewal, heritage preservation and nature development. Public Fund Management is an independent and reliable fund manager: innovative and professional, creative and enterprising, and skilled in balancing** public and private financing. The fund’s strength lies in is its strategy of implementing innovative financing structures and private development power, combining government financing with private funds. Public Fund Management, which employs some 60 people, has assets under management of roughly EUR 1.7 billion (in 2005). Public Fund Management represents a modern embodiment of Rabo Bouwfonds’ social commitment, which has been one of the company’s key objectives since its inception.

The public-private funds
Currently, Public Fund Management manages four public-private funds; Nationaal Restauratiefonds, Nationaal Groenfonds, Stichting Stimuleringsfonds Volkshuisvesting Nederlandse Gemeenten en Nationale Maatschappij tot Behoud, Ontwikkeling en Exploitatie van Industrieel Erfgoed. Each fund has its own legal entity and independent governance.



Nationaal Restauratie Fonds (National Restoration Fund)

The National Restauration Fund (NRF) is a private organisation that works in partnership with the Dutch State, municipalities and provinces, and financial institutions. The NRF is dedicated to the preservation of monuments in the Netherlands by providing funding and information resources.

Chairman: Pieter van Vollenhoven

 

Nationaal Groenfonds (National Green Fund)

Established in 1994 on the initiative of the State and provinces, the National Green Fund provides funding for nature projects and landscape investments of public authorities and private individuals. The Green Fund intends to use the government funds available for maintenance and development of nature more effectively (‘more green for the same amount of money’) and, where possible, to tap new sources of financing. The National Green Fund combines knowledge of the natural environment with expertise in the area of money, financing and government finance. As a dedicated financier, the National Green Fund bundles the money flows of the State and provinces for the rural area and green projects. The National Green Fund provides ‘green investors’ with strategic and financial advice and offers customised solutions for financing, in close cooperation with market players, public authorities and social organisations.

Chairman: Pieter van Vollenhoven


Stichting Stimuleringsfonds Volkshuisvesting Nederlandse Gemeenten (Dutch Housing Stimulation Fund)

The foundation Dutch Housing Stimulation Fund was established in 1996 on the initiative of Bouwfonds and its shareholders, the Dutch municipalities. the Dutch Housing Stimulation Fund manages revolving funds of individual municipalities. The funds these municipalities have placed with the Dutch Housing Stimulation Fund are earmarked for use in the broad work area of housing and urban renewal.

Chairman: mr. Th.C. (Thom) de Graaf


Nationale Maatschappij tot Behoud, Ontwikkeling en Exploitatie van Industrieel Erfgoed (National Trust for the Maintenance, Development and Exploitation of Industrial Heritage)
The Netherlands has a wide and rich variety of old industrial monuments: large buildings that have usually lost their original use. The National Trust for the Maintenance, Development and Exploitation of Industrial Heritage, acquires industrial monuments and attempts to preserve them in the integrated area development and re-designate them for other uses. It does so not by diminishing the value of the monument, but rather on the basis of a solid plan for retaining the profitability of the building or complex. The shareholders of the National Trust for the Maintenance, Development and Exploitation of Industrial Heritage are Rabo Bouwfonds, NS Vastgoed, AM and Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (bank of Dutch municipalities). When developing industrial heritage, the National Trust for the Maintenance, Development and Exploitation of Industrial Heritagemostly works together with municipalities, but also with the shareholders and other (commercial) market players.

Chairman: A. Th. (Ton) Meijer