Stardust BV – World Christmas Circus 35 years

To Celebrate 35 years of World Christmas Circus in Theatre Carré world renowned and Guinness Worldrecord holder juggeler Michael Ferreri and show producer Elisa van der Meyden open the Euronext stockexchange!

In the 132 year history of this worldfamous Dutch entertainment venue not a single tradition has had as much success, or has lasted as long as the Wereldkerstcircus (World christmas circus). To celebrate this incredible success a penultimate program was created with the cream of the crop of the international circus world. Only winners of the most prestigious circus festivals in the world were invited to perform in Amsterdam. The result is a showstopping experience beyond all belief! Some of the largest, most daring acts ever will be performed in the Royal Theatre! The show will be directed by the Royal Circus Gia Eradze with modern choreography and fairytale-like costumes. This jubilee promises to be everything the most famous circus in Europe was for the past 35 years AND will showcase what it will become in the future. An immersive experience of skill, art and architecture in one the most beautiful cities in the world!

Decades years ago Carré had changed from a circus venue to a theatre only venue. Its heritage stuffed away in a remote corner of an attic. 35 years ago a team of visionary creatives decided to overhaul this once famous circustemple and start a new, proud tradition. Technology, architecture and especially the incredible talent of the best performers in the world quickly turned the risky investment into an overwhelming success. 35 years later Wereldkerstcircus in Carré is perhaps the most famous Christmas tradition in the Netherland creating everlasting happy memories for generations of visitors.

VanEck – 10 years

The gong will be struck by Martijn Rozemuller of VanEck on the occasion of the company's ten-year anniversary, founded in 2009 as Think ETF’s. Martijn Rozemuller and Gijs Koning had the vision to give investors access to fair, transparent investment products at low costs. VanEck thus became the first provider of ETFs domiciled in the Netherlands.

VanEck's first five products, including the VanEck Vectors^TM AEX UCITS ETF and the VanEck Vectors^TM AMX UCITS ETF, also celebrate their ten-year anniversary. The results of these products are impressive. For example, the VanEck Vectors^TM AEX UCITS ETF has generated a cumulative return of 146%. Five percentage points more than the only other AEX ETF on the market, the iShares AEX UCITS ETF. This difference is due to the fact that the VanEck ETF manages to prevent dividend leakage. VanEck is the only provider of ETFs that offer Dutch investors this benefit.

VanEck remains true to its original philosophy. For example, it is one of the few ETF providers that does not do securities lending or synthetic replication for its entire UCITS product range.

Sustainable Motion - ENGIE wins Sustainable Business Challenge 2019

Hugo Soons, participant of the Sustainable Business Challenge 2019 for ENGIE, opens trade to celebrate winning the Sustainable Business Challenge 2019.

The Sustainable Business Challenge was organized for the 7^th time by SustainableMotion. Every year 60 young talents work on cases of companies that want to connect sustainability and business. Project agency SustainableMotion empowers the talents with programs and methods to turn their ambition and knowledge into innovative ideas and solutions. This gives companies fresh insights to become sustainable in a fast-moving world.

The ambition of ENGIE is to take the lead in the sustainable transition. ENGIE is doing this by serving CO2-neutral solutions as a service to organizations, local governments and consumers among other things. Made to measure and cost-efficient, without large investments. In the Netherlands ENGIE has a unique role because of the combination of energy and services and is therefore able to realize sustainability.

ENGIE challenges young talents to contribute in this by meeting the actual needs. The winning team of the challenge showed their innovative strength by inventing a promising solution for zero-emmision construction. The Sustainable Business Challenge shows to be a unique platform for acceleration the energy transition together with young talents.

4PM Entertainment - Amsterdams Winter Paradise

Mitchel Bovenlander (owner) and Duco Verhaar (project manager) of Het Amsterdamse Winterparadijs will open the trading at the Amsterdam exchange.

Amsterdam Winter Paradise

From the 21st of December 2019 to the 5th of January 2020, the RAI Amsterdam will be transformed into ‘Het Amsterdamse Winterparadijs’. A magical winter wonderland for all ages to enjoy for hours. Visitors can go ice-skating, sledding, ice racing, cross-country skiing, curling, enjoy the après ski bars and a variety of Dutch singers such as Xander de Buisonjé, Maan and Lil Kleine. This year’s newest, sensational addition; the Tube Jump with Big Airbag.

4PM Entertainment

4PM Entertainment was founded 13 years ago by Philippe Hes and Mitchel Bovenlander.

Other well-known concepts are Kingsland Festival, FRIS events and the Helden van Oranje

For more information: hetamsterdamsewinterparadijs.nl

Robeco Trends Investing – 10 years

Jack Neele of Robeco Trends Investing sounds the gong today.

Robeco Trends Investing celebrates its ten-year anniversary after the change of the sector funds into trends & thematic funds in 2009. The flagship fund, Robeco Global Consumer Trends also celebrates a milestone after reaching EUR 3 billion in assets under management last month.

Jack Neele is portfolio manager of the fund since 2007 and redefined the existing strategy Robeco had launched in 1998. He took his technology background and wove it into the existing consumer equities fund to add more exposure to trends. He was joined by Richard Speetjens in 2010. Their approach has worked well as their portfolio returned more than double the worldwide reference index over the last 10 years. On a 3-year and 5-year basis the annual outperformance is 10% and 6% respectively.

About Robeco

Robeco is a pure play international asset manager founded in 1929. It currently has 17 offices worldwide and is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Through its unique integration of fundamental, sustainable and quantitative research, Robeco is able to offer both institutional and private investors an extensive selection of active investment strategies, covering a broad range of asset classes. As at 30 September 2019, Robeco had EUR 199 billion in assets under management, 72% of which were institutional. Robeco is a subsidiary of ORIX Corporation Europe N.V. which had assets under management of EUR 313.9 billion as at 30 September 2019.

For more information: robeco.com

Philips Innovation Award – 15th edition

The Board of the Philips Innovation Award opens trading at the Amsterdam Exchange by sounding the gong. This marks the 15th edition of the largest student entrepreneur award in the Netherlands.

All participants in the Award will receive feedback on their submitted business plans. The 30 best will participate in the Semi Final on the 8th of April, after which the best 8 ideas will continue to the Final on the 18th of May. The winners in the Innovator league and Rough Diamond league will be awarded prices worth €50,000 and €10,000 respectively.

The Philips Innovation Award is an independent non-profit organization which works together closely with, amongst others, Royal Philips. The Board of the Award consists of seven students from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and their goal is to stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation among students in the Netherlands.  

For more information: phia.nl

HR Top 100

Yesterday, the 12th of December 2019, the yearly HRtop100 award show took place. HR leaders and professors came together with their teams to find out who won the highly desired awards in the following categories: audience award, jury award and the science award.

The jury had the difficult job to select the winner out of 10 finalists. Each one of them has an outstanding perspective on the HR profession. The HR leaders that won are now present to open the stock exchange.    

The HRtop100 is a podium for HR leaders were they can show who they are and share their views on the profession. Insights are shared to inspire the rest of the HR community. Once a year the leaders come together on the HRtop100. The HRtop100 is an initiative from HRcommunity and Rvdb. 

Prokkelweek – Start preparations Prokkelweek

On the 12th of December Maartje van Boekel (VNG) and Tim van Zanten (LFB and Stichting Prokkel) will open the trading day of the stock market with a bang on the gong.

This is also the starting signal for the preparations of the Prokkelweek, a week filled with events connecting people with and without intellectual disabilities. During the network meetings in January, municipalities, companies and other organisations brainstorm about the upcoming Prokkelweek. In 2020, the week is from Monday the 8th of June until Saturday the 13th of June.

Stichting Prokkel / Prokkel Foundation

Since 2007 The Prokkel Foundation organises “exiting encounters” throughout the country between people with and without intellectual disabilities. To show how important and valuable these meetings are, Stichting Prokkel organises a ‘Week of the Prokkel’ every year: One week as an example and inspiration for the rest of the year.

For more information: www.prokkel.nl

Stichting Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) – Mission accomplished

Today's opening gong ceremony marks the successful closing chapter of Stichting Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI).

Nine years ago, CYFI's mission was to grow a global movement on the topic of financial inclusion and financial education for children and youth. Today, it has seen the Movement reach a point where it is self-sustaining and no longer needs a coordinator. As such, CYFI’s last milestone has been fulfilled and we will be proudly shutting its doors on December 31, 2019.

It is a true achievement and source of fulfillment for CYFI to be where every NGO wants to be: at a point where what it has built can go on without it.

For more information: www.childfinanceinternational.org

Women in Tech

Snezana Zivcevska-Stalpers, lead WitNL – Women in Tech Community, luidt de gong.

WiTNL - Women in Tech NL is een platform voor alle vrouwen en meisjes in technologie in Nederland, om hen in staat te stellen en te helpen groeien in hun carrière, maar ook om technologie te promoten als een aantrekkelijk en leuk gebied voor veel meisjes en vrouwen die denken aan het toetreden tot de technologie.

Ze brengen Academia, Corporates en Start-Ups, individuen en organisaties, vrouwen en mannen samen, iedereen die zich inzet voor het dichten van de genderkloof in technologie. We organiseren inspirerende evenementen, workshops masterclasses, mentorensessies, start -up uitdagingen en prijzen, spreekmogelijkheden en vele andere loopbaanondersteunende activiteiten.

Ze werken samen met vele andere initiatieven, netwerken, technische en niet-technische conferenties, bedrijven en organisaties, terwijl we een ecosysteem bouwen dat vrouwen in technische en vrouwelijke tech helpt ondernemers gedijen.

TEDxAmsterdamWomen – Tenth edition

Carine de Meyere Director TEDxAmsterdamWomen and Startup Award 2019, opens trading in Amsterdam today, together with the TEDxAmsterdamWomen Partnership & Organizing Team.

On 9 December, the 10th edition of TEDxAmsterdamWomen will take place at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam. Princess Martha Louise of Norway, Science Editor Niki Korteweg, and Foreign Minister of Somalia Edna Adan Ismail will be among those who will take the stage at the to share with the audience their views in a TEDTalk pertaining to this year’s theme: State of Mind. 

Also final of the 5th TEDxAmsterdamWomen Startup Award competition will take place.

For more information: www.tedxamsterdamwomen.nl

True Partner Capital – 10 years

Together with his Amsterdam-based colleagues and CEO Ralph van Put, Co-CIO Tobias Hekster will sound the gong to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of True Partner Capital.

True Partner Capital is a team of former market makers and IT specialists who have been working together for over a decade. Their combined expertise on trading, execution and risk management as well as the proprietary trading technology, allows the team to identify and capitalize on trading opportunities.

Tracing its roots to the trading floors of Euronext Amsterdam, True Partner Capital covers the world from offices in Hong Kong, Chicago and Amsterdam.

Sinterklaas

Who else but Sinterklaas can open trading today? Euronext has the privilege to welcome many famous or remarkable persons on Beursplein 5, but seldom do we receive more distinguished visitors than Sinterklaas.

Arcadis – Improving PFAS knowledge with Australian technology

Arcadis signed a Heads of Agreement with EVOCRA, enabling an exclusive commercial negotiating period within which the parties will finalize a license agreement for sole rights to the EVOCRA technology for PFAS solutions. This technology, which has already been proven at commercial scale on projects in Australia, will be a welcome addition to Arcadis’ existing suite of PFAS solutions, allowing Arcadis to continue to offer a differentiated solution for clients globally.

To celebrate that Arcadis environment director Marc Raessen will open the stock exchange. 

PFAS, or per- and poly-fluorinated alkyl substances, were incorporated in commercial, industrial and consumer products, including textile coatings, stain repellents, electronics and mist suppressants. PFAS were also components of firefighting foams known as Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF). In recent years, under increasing scientific and regulatory scrutiny and community awareness, more is being understood about PFAS toxicity, environmental persistence, aquifer mobility and the potential for this emerging contaminant to bioaccumulate in natural environments and enter the food chain.

Arcadis is at the forefront of a global effort to remove PFAS from impacted sites and environments, with over 75 projects in their portfolio, representing over 300 individual sites in 12 countries. This deal will continue Arcadis’ push to achieve greater market share within the PFAS space and provide their clients with a unique and innovative solution that can be used on its own and/or in conjunction with other technologies to remove PFAS from impacted sources. In the beginning of 2020 Arcadis will start tests in The Netherlands tests with the EVOCRA technology.

ICT Media B.V. - CIO of the Year 2019: Perry van der Weyden

Perry van der Weyden, who sounds the gong today, is CIO of Rijkswaterstaat and recently proclaimed the winner of the CIO of the Year Award 2019. He can call himself the best "chief information officer" in the Netherlands. Van der Weyden owes the prize to the way in which he manages to achieve results within the government, a complex environment with many stakeholders.

Winning the CIO of the Year Award 2019 is the reason for opening the Amsterdam stock exchange. Rob Beijleveld, CEO of ICT Media and initiator of the CIO of the Year Award, finds Van der Weyden a shining example in the government world. "You can see that he manages to get digital initiatives off the ground in an unconventional way and subsequently knows how to find support for them." The other jury members were also very enthusiastic about the winner.

At Rijkswaterstaat the share of the IT function in the primary process is growing. Digitization is making its entrance into the monitoring of traffic flows, and the management and maintenance of roads, shipping lanes and other objects. "A true digital revolution" is what Van der Weyden calls it.​

Rabobank – Tribe Vermogensopbouw

Rabobank’s Tribe Savings & Investments has a new structure, that enables them to better serve their customers on their way to a healthy financial life and improves their cooperation with their partners, such as Euronext. Sandra Hurkmans-Stuut, Product Manager Investments, sounded the gong.

Kepler Cheuvreux – Tenth IR Summit

A firm hit with the gong hammer by Marlon Kelly, Global Head, Equity Brokerage van Kepler Cheuvreux, marks the symbolic opening of trade on Euronext Amsterdam, as well as the start of Kepler Cheuvreux’ tenth IR Summit. Mr. Kelly is assisted by Simone Huis in ‘t Veld, CEO of Euronext Amsterdam, and Anne Lacarrière, Managing Director of Kepler Cheuvreux.

The theme of the IR Summit, which is co-hosted by Euronext, is “ESG: Green Is the New Gold”. Over two hundred IR professionals from across Europe gather together in Amsterdam today for a day of workshops and keynote speeches on the most important trends in investor relations.

About Kepler Cheuvreux

Kepler Cheuvreux is an independent European financial services company specializing in research, execution, advisory, and asset management services. Kepler Cheuvreux has twelve offices in Europe, two in the United States, and 600 employees worldwide.

Aidsfonds – Start World AIDS Day Campaign

Stefanie van der Bruggen rings the bell to announce the start of Aidsfonds’ World AIDS Day campaign.

Sunday, December 1, is World AIDS Day. On this day, people all over the world reflect on the importance of the fight against AIDS. Because as we speak, every 40 seconds somewhere on this planet somebody dies as a result of AIDS.

With the support of loyal donors and friends, Aidsfonds stands up for everybody who is infected or affected by HIV or AIDS. In The Netherlands as well as the rest of the world. They are fighting for a world without HIV and AIDS.

For more information: www.aidsfonds.nl