Strategist Fixed Income at ING Investment Management, Valentijn van Nieuwenhuijzen is responsible for formulating the firm’s macroeconomic outlook and fixed income tactical asset allocation. Focused on tactical allocation between cash, fixed income, equities, real estate, and commodities, and more particularly between specific fixed income markets such as treasuries, intergovernmental credits, high yields, and emerging market debt, his research supports ING IM’s Global Asset Allocation Team’s allocation decisions.
Also, he is a recognised expert in growth, inflation, and central bank policy in the major economic blocks and the global dynamics that influence different regions. Until 2008, as a member of the global fixed income team, he was responsible for formulating the team’s macroeconomic outlook.
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Before coming to ING Investment Management, Valentijn worked in market risk management within the ING Group.
A Dutch native, Valentijn is fluent in both Dutch and English. Last year he established the ING IM Houseview Report, a weekly report that sets out the firm’s latest strategy and tactical asset allocation views and is already its flagship communication vehicle. In addition, he frequently appears on CNBC and all major Dutch financial and national news television programmes, where he is consistently praised for his clear and direct communication style. His macroeconomic and financial market research has also been recognised by several major Dutch policy and financial newspapers and magazines.
Valentijn specialised in international macroeconomics at the University of Amsterdam, where he took his degree in 1998.
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