That depends on the agreements in your collective labour agreement (CLA), or the agreements that your employer has reached with us. The percentage contribution that you pay is shown in your Pension 1-2-3. Your employer deducts the contributions from your gross salary. The monthly amount is shown in your salary slip.
At Pensioenfonds PGB, you can build up a pension in an average salary scheme or a defined contribution scheme. You can see which type of scheme you have under the heading ‘How do you build up a pension?’ in layer 1 of your Pension 1-2-3. You can access your Pension 1-2-3 by logging in at MijnPGBpensioen with your DigiD number. Your pension scheme is also shown at the top of your pension statement.
We take account of the wishes of our participants in our investments.
This is why we regularly investigate how participants think about investment and the associated risks.
In an (average) average salary scheme, we invest 90% of your contributions. With 8%, we insure risks such as mortality and disability and with the other 2%, we pay the management and administration costs for your pension.
In an (average) defined contribution scheme, we currently invest between 88% and 91% of the contributions. With 7% to 10%, we insure risks such as mortality and disability for you. With the remaining 2%, we pay the management and administration costs for your pension.
With a defined contribution scheme, you can also make your own choices on how we invest the pension for you. Click here for more information on the choices you can make and how to do this.
See here if you would like to know more about how we invest your contributions.
Yes. Even if you are no longer paying contributions for your pension, we continue to invest your money. As a result, you continue to receive returns on the contributions you paid until you left the company. When you retire, the amount that we invest for you will steadily decrease. This is because you will receive a payout every month, and because you no longer pay any contributions. You will always have a ‘stable pension’ with us. This means that your pension will no longer fluctuate in line with the investments. We may increase your pension if the economy is performing very well. If the economy performs badly, there is a risk that we will have to reduce your pension.
This depends on your pension scheme. If you become partially or fully disabled while you are still working for an employer that is registered with us, we may pay part or all of the contributions for your pension until you retire, or until you are no longer more than 35% disabled. Precisely what is arranged for you is explained in your Pension 1-2-3 at MijnPGBpensioen.
If you die while you are still employed by an employer that is registered with us, your partner will receive 70% of the pension that you could still have accrued up to your retirement date. Any children will receive an orphan’s pension until they reach the age of 18. After that, they will only receive an orphan’s pension if they are still studying, up to the age of 27.
If you are no longer accruing any pension with us when you die, your surviving dependants may not receive any benefits, or lower benefits. For information on what your partner will receive if you die, go to mijnpgbpensioen.nl or see this page for more information on the pensions for your surviving dependants.
The administration costs are costs we incur for managing your pension. There are two types of costs.
Pension administration costs
These are the costs for the pension administration and for informing participants about their pensions. They also include the costs of the Board.
Asset management costs
These are the costs of investing the pensions.
Click here for the actual Pension administration costs and Asset management costs.
The average return in the past 10 years was 7.9%. The table shows the results for the past 10 years.
Click here for the total invested capital.
|
Year |
Return |
|
2020 |
6.8% |
|
2019 |
16.0% |
|
2018 |
-2.3% |
|
2017 |
6.7% |
|
2016 |
10.9% |
|
2015 |
1.4% |
|
2014 |
18.3% |
|
2013 |
1.7% |
|
2012 |
13.0% |
|
2011 |
6.6% |
Pensions have not been raised for some time. We understand that that is a shame, but the financial position of Pensioenfonds PGB has deteriorated considerably recently, due to lower interest rates and lower share prices because of the coronavirus pandemic. But there are also other reasons why it has not been possible to increase pensions in recent years.
Life expectancy rose faster than expected
People are continually living longer. Until recently, we were living even longer, on average, than expected previously. As a result, we have to pay pensions for longer than we anticipated. This means that contributions paid in the past were actually too low to pay today’s pensions. Because we have to reserve more money for pensions today and in the future, less of the return that we realise is left over.
Strict rules have made it more difficult to raise pensions
We use actuarial interest rates in order to calculate how much money we currently have in reserve to be able to pay pensions now and in the future. The actuarial interest rates fluctuate in line with interest rates in the capital market. These interest rates have fallen sharply since 2008. If the actuarial interest rate is 0%, we have to have every euro of pension that we have promised our participants between now and in roughly 70 years time in reserve already. The actuarial interest rate is not 0% yet, but we are not far off that, because interest rates are extremely low. We therefore need to keep a great deal of capital in reserve. According to the statutory rules, we may not raise pensions if the ratio of the value of the investments to the value of the (future) pension liabilities is less than 110%. That ratio is known as the coverage ratio.
Click here for more background information on interest rates. For more information on the coverage ratio, click here.