Maarten Slendebroek
The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Maarten Slendebroek demonstrates the Navigator archetype throughout this interview, charting deliberate courses through shifting landscapes across multiple decades and institutions. He describes moving from legal work on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange to equity analysis, then through Merrill Lynch, BlackRock, Jupiter, and finally Robeco's supervisory board with a clear-eyed pragmatism about where value and opportunity lie.
“What you need in asset management is scale in product. You don't necessarily need to be BlackRock to be successful. There are firms with asset levels of less than 10 billion that can motor on forever.”
On asset management competitive dynamicsundated
“I rang the doorbell of the UK Treasury and effectively said, can we help with anything? And it was absolute chaos there because they were struggling with banks, RBS, and others.”
BlackRock's role in the financial crisisundated
“If you start that game today, you're never going to catch up. So I believe that Robeco indeed is in a strong position to continue to grow its footprint, particularly in that space.”
On Robeco's ESG competitive advantageundated
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