Russian Financial Sector Update
Bank of Russia
FINANCIAL SECTOR OVERVIEW
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation
NON-STATE PENSION FUNDS
Bank of Russia aims to strengthen local institutional investor base: non-state pension funds
Non-government
pension system has
gone
Figure 46: Pension assets in Russia (RUB tn)
through a number of changes:
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✓ 'one-year non-loss' rule was extended to 'five-
year non-loss' rule
✓ stress-testing mechanism introduced
✓ customers are now encouraged to stay with the
same fund for not less than 5 years
✓ since 2014 the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA)
guarantees the nominal value of mandatory
savings
✓ non-state pension funds are to bear fiduciary
responsibility (since March 18, 2018)
✓ non-state pension funds are to disclose their
investment portfolios
Non-state pension funds. Corporate savings
Non-state pension funds. Mandatory savings
State pension fund. Mandatory savings
1.11
1.21
0.99
0.83
0.90
1.71
2.15
2.47
1.09
1.13
1.90
1.94
2.06
2.02
1.91
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Figure 47: Pension system asset allocation (as of December 31, 2017, %)
Cash
Equities Corporate bonds
Government bonds Other
Source: Bank of Russia
4%
4%
21%
24%
38%
12%
48%
35%
37%
0%
21%
20%
13%
11%
12%
State pension fund NPFs. Mandatory savings NPFs. Corporate savingsView entire presentation