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22 March 2024

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Why do we invest collectively?

The pension fund invests the contributions of the participants collectively. This blog post explains how this works and why we do it this way.
6 October 2023

Blog

Investing for your pension: why is that necessary?

Contributions are paid every period to accrue your pension. That money is not kept in a savings account, but is invested by Mars Pension Fund. And that's a good thing. Board member Rianne Steenbergen explains why.
14 December 2021

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Review of 2021 and Preview of 2022 by the chairman of Mars Pensioenfonds

Despite the pandemic, the year 2021 turned out to be a very good year for us. Under difficult circumstances, we managed to bring in a very good return of almost 10%, and with a policy funding ratio exceeding 125%  we are also out of recovery. DNB wants us to have at least 123%, so we are now well above that. The monthly funding ratio is even above 130%. This actually happened much faster than we could have dreamed in March 2020 when the pandemic in Europe reached full intensity and financial markets plunged. Last year, we were able to offer partial indexation and now we can again promise full ...