Dutch ETFs: Orange power

  When you are small and have few of your own natural resources, you have to think big. From the 15th century, the Dutch provinces grew rich on the back of shipping and trade with the rest of the world. The Dutch East India Company – known as the Veering Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC – was the world’s first multinational conglomerate and the first to issue common stock. The VOC’s global reach has been emulated by the modern corporate titans in the Netherlands, such as Philips, Royal Dutch Shell and Unilever - although none of the current entities have their own private armies and sta...