{"id":100348,"date":"2025-05-14T08:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100348\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T08:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:52:34","slug":"swiss-pension-funds-had-a-good-year-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100348\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss pension funds had a good year in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/82c11397e875bb7abb3a52ac067c1520af56a43e-89310642.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"A good year for Swiss pension funds in 2024\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                A good year for Swiss pension funds in 2024            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<ul class=\"read-aloud\/track-selector__options\">\n<li>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss pension funds performed well last year. Their average performance was up to +7.4%, compared with +5.2% in 2023, announced their High Supervisory Commission (CHS PP). The average remuneration of active policyholders is also up.\n<\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        May 13, 2025 &#8211; 17:52\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/latest-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capital investments continued to perform well in 2024, the CHS PP wrote in a press release on Tuesday. Coverage ratios calculated at the end of 2024 climbed to an average of 114.7% (compared with 110.3% in 2023).<\/p>\n<p>Active insured are also benefiting from this favourable situation, according to the commission. The positive average investment performance has led to an increase in the average return on retirement savings for active insured members, from 2.31% at the end of 2023 to 3.76% at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/swiss-abroad\/with-my-pension-money-i-cant-live-in-switzerland\/89064057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">+ \u2018With my pension money I can\u2019t live in Switzerland\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, in view of the market turbulence and geopolitical uncertainties, the funds must proceed with caution. These could lead to losses for the funds in 2025, warns the CHS PP.<\/p>\n<p>Translated from German by DeepL\/ts<\/p>\n<p>How we work<\/p>\n<p>We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools such as DeepL to translate them into English. A journalist then reviews the translation for clarity and accuracy before publication. 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