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Our experts have calculated the funding ratio of Swiss pension funds for 2020. Despite Corona-related losses and temporary underfunding, the pension funds closed the year with an overall gain. At 109.5% at the end of the year, the funding ratio

Changes to the first and the second pillars are running in parallel to make them acceptable to the public. The Swiss government wants to avoid the mistakes made in its previous AV2020 reform. As part of that reform, the executive

Swiss pension funds have seen their funding ratios increase to 106.8% at the end of August through positive return of 0.3%, according to Complementa’s latest Risk Check-up 2020 report. The recent turmoil in equity markets led to a slump in

Read the press release as of 8 september 2020: in German: Medienmitteilung in French: Communiqué de presse Please proceed here for more information about the Complementa Risk Check-up Study to download the full Study (Risk Check-up 2020, in German).

The funding ratio of Swiss pension funds bounced back to 103% in April after declining to 99.8% for a short time at the end of March, according to Complementa’s latest “risk check-up” analysis report. Read the article by IPE Magazine

Information Technology has changed and is still changing at an enormous speed. Having access to large amounts of data in very little time has become taken for granted. Nevertheless, processing big data is still rather complex. How can family Offices

Pension funds in Switzerland have continued to increase their allocations to insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance linked investments, with the ILS asset class becoming a core alternative investment for some of them. With Switzerland being home to a number of

Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE), 16 May 2019 The equity market downturn in the last quarter of 2018 left many Swiss pension funds with major dents to their funding levels. On average the funding ratio of Swiss schemes fell to

Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE), 16 May 2019 Banks could be asked to tell the ECB how much liquidity they could generate from over-collateralised covered bonds – a move that has caused some experts to warn of negative consequences for