Belgium: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis
Belgium’s 159 IORPs manage pensions for around 2.5m workers, with a healthy increase workplace pension coverage in recent years. But the country has missed out on millions of EU COVID recovery funds because of a lack of progress in making the pension system more sustainable. Following elections in June 2023, it looks more likely that a new government will be able to undertake more ambitious reforms.
Pension Funds in Belgium - Country Report
Belgium: Focus on risk and returns
Pension funds face lower returns and greater regulatory pressures
Robeco poaches EMD team from Candriam
The addition of a sovereign emerging market debt strategy ‘is an important step in addressing market demands’, according to the Dutch asset manager
Fiera Capital makes Benelux, Nordics move
Jeroen van Rooij is appointed to the newly-created role of head of Benelux and Nordics distribution
Belgian IORP numbers down in 2022, members up
Belgian regulator delivers latest annual statistical overview of IORP sector
Belgian pension funds bounce back with 4.5% H1 return
PensioPlus attributed the improved returns to an investment policy focused on long-term investments in the real economy
Impact Cubed joins forces with Impact Orange Partners
The partnership aims to set a benchmark for ESG integration in Belgium and the Netherlands
TOP BELGIUM PENSION FUNDS 2024
Pension fund/entity | Assets (€’000)
- Anheuser-Busch InBev NV | 3,516,910
- ExxonMobil OFP | 3,375,345
- Pensioenfonds KBC | 2,936,000
- EUROCONTROL | 2,053,155
- Amonis | 1,854,663
©IPE Research; View the Top 1000 European Pensions Funds 2024 for a comprehensive market overview
IPE BEST PENSION FUND IN BELGIUM AWARD WINNERS
- 2023 - United Pensions
- 2022 - Pensioenfonds KBC | Pensions OFP
- 2021 - Pensioenfonds KBC
- 2020 - Pensioenfonds KBC
- 2019 - Pensioenfonds KBC
Belgium: Funding decision awaits new government
The coalition is likely to push through more radical pension reforms
Preparation is key to countering pensions cyber risk
Pension funds face very real cyber security risks and must prepare for regulatory changes, such as the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act. IPE asked European pension funds about their strategies to deal with cyber crime
Robeco poaches EMD team from Candriam
The addition of a sovereign emerging market debt strategy ‘is an important step in addressing market demands’, according to the Dutch asset manager
Fiera Capital makes Benelux, Nordics move
Jeroen van Rooij is appointed to the newly-created role of head of Benelux and Nordics distribution
Belgian IORP numbers down in 2022, members up
Belgian regulator delivers latest annual statistical overview of IORP sector
Belgian pension funds bounce back with 4.5% H1 return
PensioPlus attributed the improved returns to an investment policy focused on long-term investments in the real economy
Impact Cubed joins forces with Impact Orange Partners
The partnership aims to set a benchmark for ESG integration in Belgium and the Netherlands
Belgium: First-pillar reform caps highest pensions
Federal government manages to work out a first-pillar agreement before the parliamentary recess
Belgian government reaches deal on first-pillar pension reform
The agreement, which is to represent 0.5% of GDP in long-term savings compared to a pension deal reached last year, is supposed to safeguard a €847m cheque from the EU’s Covid Recovery Fund
Belgian pension funds pass stress test even in unfavourable scenario
Belgian schemes achieved an average return of -14.98% in 2022
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