For the first time, you can call on the practical experience of an insider who knows asset management and the asset management industry inside out.
Jan Longeval (56)
Former head of asset management and member of the group management committee and board of directors of Bank Degroof (Petercam).
Member of the board of directors, audit committee and chairman of the investment committee of Synatom (Engie group), the largest non-financial investor in Belgium, with assets of €14 billion. Synatom is responsible for the decommissioning of Belgian nuclear power plants and the processing of spent nuclear fuel and has to fund more than 40 billion euros in liabilities.
Adjunct professor of Finance at the Vlerick Business School, holder of the Advanced Asset & Portfolio Management course, co-founder of the Executive Programme on Asset management.
Chairman of the Sustainable Investment ('ESG') taskforce of PensioPlus, the Belgian Federation of Pension Institutions; expert in ESG and impact investing.
Advisor to more than 20 Belgian OFP pension funds (including Amonis and Prolocus), insurance companies and universities.
Author of ‘God does not play dice with the stock market’ and ‘Heavy Metal’, on precious metals and the nature of money.
The use of external experts is considered best market practice in corporate governance. Regulators such as the Belgian FSMA are imposing increasingly stringent requirements on the pension fund board in terms of expertise. This expertise is assessed at the collective level of the board and not at the level of individual board members. A collaboration with Kounselor Consulting thus strengthens corporate governance.