By the end of June 2025, the board of Mars Pension Fund approved the Annual Report 2024. Curious about the fund's (financial) developments? View the infographic or read the annual report.

In 2024, Mars Pension Fund regularly met with Mars and the Works Councils to discuss actions around the Wet toekomst pensioenen (Future Pensions Act, Wtp). For example, we discussed the design of the new pension plan and the rationale for the conversion of pensions from the current pension plans to the new plan.

The pension fund board also dealt with the design of the investment policy in the Wtp. When making investment choices, we take into account the preferences of all members. The risk preference is part of this. Soon we will publish an interview with board member Paul Bree about this topic.

Transition plan

Mars and the Works Councils have agreed on a transition plan whose main elements were shared with the Pension Board at the beginning of 2025. The final transition plan was published on the website in February 2025.

Currently, the pension fund assesses the transition plan to validate if all design elements are understandable, balanced and feasible. When this leads to a positive assessment, the Pension Board will accept the assignment from the social partners to implement the new pension plan.

Return and indexation

Our investment approach intends to safeguard our funding ratio and facilitate a seamless conversion to the new pension plan. This strategy resulted in an investment return of 6.6% in 2024. Our funding ratio remained very stable last year, ending the year at 138.9%. This allowed the Pension Board to grant an indexation of 2.62% for pensioners from 1 January 2025.