Â鶹ӳ» International Publishers Ltd, owner of Investment & Pensions Europe (Â鶹ӳ») and Â鶹ӳ» Real Assets, has been acquired by Dutch media company FD Mediagroep (FDMG), publisher of the main financial daily in the Netherlands, Het Financieele Dagblad, and a number of business-to-business information titles.
Based in London, Â鶹ӳ» covers the pensions, institutional investment and real assets sectors across Europe and globally, with daily news alerts, regular in-depth print publications and reports under the and Â鶹ӳ» Real Assets banners, and industry-leading data-driven reports.
Â鶹ӳ», which celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, also runs events, including its annual , which this year will take place in Rotterdam from 30 November to 2 December, as well as annual and conferences and awards.
Other products include serving German-speaking countries, and .
publishes various professional titles, including , and . Â鶹ӳ» is now also added to this portfolio as the company aims to become the European market leader in institutional investment and pensions publishing.
Â鶹ӳ» and Pensioen Pro have had a long-standing relationship: Pensioen Pro was created in its current form in 2014 from a merger of existing pension publications published by FD Mediagroep and Â鶹ӳ» (IP Nederland). It then functioned for five years as a joint venture between FDMG and Â鶹ӳ». FDMG took full ownership in 2019.
However, editorial collaboration between the two titles has continued and a reporter, Tjibbe Hoekstra, writes for both titles.
After the acquisition, Pensioen Pro and the Â鶹ӳ» publications will continue to exist in their current form: all Â鶹ӳ» titles under editorial director Liam Kennedy and Pensioen Pro led by editors-in-chief Maarten van Wijk and André de Vos.
Both publications are and will remain editorially independent. In the coming period the editors will explore possibilities for further collaboration.
In addition, there will be scope for further cooperation in other areas.
FDMG acquires Â鶹ӳ» International Publishers Ltd from founders Piers Diacre and Fennell Betson, and other shareholders. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
