Intervention pensions strikes like a bomb – Telegraaf.nl

The procedure of De Nederlandsche Bank to the rules for calculating pensions by Today tightening, is built as a bomb

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DNB president Klaas Knot Photo: John Dalhuijsen / Telegraph

Unions and pension respond stunned. “Incomprehensible. This is going to become employees and retirees in the wallet. “

De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) yesterday worsened the financial health of pension funds in one stroke. The rate at which they have had very long-term commitments to reduce. And so they must for every euro of future retirement suddenly put aside more money. This has far-reaching consequences, warns Gerard Belts, director of the Pension Federation. “DNB pushes this pension premiums up. That is at odds with the political climate of improvement in purchasing power. We do not understand this. “

The pension funds are somewhat weather just seemed to recover from the financial crisis. The coverage ratio – the extent to which the assets to cover future pension liabilities – climbed at many funds properly.

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