(IPE) Swiss pension funds are looking at equity investments this year with slightly renewed optimist, remaining cautious, however, on bonds, and cutting down on real estate allocations. A strong equity market performance, especially from US tech stocks, led Swiss pension funds to record average returns of 3.7%, as of the end of August 2023, from -9% recorded at the end of last year, according to the latest data from Complementa’s risk check-up.
“As a consequence, the equity quota [in portfolios] has increased more than 1 percentage point compared to the end of last year, and on average stands at around 31%. The bonds [allocation] has remained on average fairly stable at above 31%,” said Andreas Rothacher, senior investment consultant at Complementa.
Last year, Pensionskassen invested 31.7% of their assets in fixed income, 29.5% in equities, 24% in real estate, and 10.1% in alternative investments, while 4.6% was in cash, the study added. The share of real estate estate investments has instead decreased this year to close to 23% as of end of August, according to Complementa’s research. The high allocation to propertty last year was a key driver to slowing down further investments in the asset class this year, Rothacher explained.


Die Anlagebestimmungen der beruflichen Vorsorge stellen für die Pensionskassen kein Hindernis dar, ihre Vorsorgevermögen nachhaltig zu bewirtschaften. Dies hält der Bundesrat in einem Bericht fest, den er an seiner Sitzung vom 30. August 2023 verabschiedet hat. In einer Mitteilung wird dazu ausgeführt:



