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The pension system in the Netherlands is going to change. The pension scheme of HEINEKEN will also change with it. This means that we are discussing a new pension scheme with representatives of the employer, employees and the pension fund. The Heineken Pension Fund executes the HEINEKEN pension scheme.

The HPF has decided to add investments in Russia to the exclusion list. As a result of this decision, the remaining investments in Russia will be sold as soon as possible and no new purchases will be made.

If you receive a pension from us, you will receive an annual statement. This states how much pension you have received in the past year.

There are two vacancies in the Accountability Council.

Your regular pension scheme includes a supplement to the partner’s pension that has commenced. This supplement will change as of January 1, 2022.

We are pleased to announce that as of the 6th of July 2021 we have two new board members, Henriëtte Dollé-Bäcker on behalf of the employer and Ben de Putter on behalf of the employees.

There is a vacancy available in the Accountability Council (AC) of the Heineken Pension Fund (HPF) on behalf of the employer. As of the 1st of January 2022 there is also a vacancy on behalf of the employees.

There is a vacancy available in the Accountability Council (VO) of the Heineken Pension Fund (HPF) on behalf of the employer.

The HPF follows a Socially Responsible Investment Policy (SRI). More information about the HPF SRI policy can be found on our website Each year the Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (VBDO) benchmarks the 50 largest pension funds in the Netherlands in terms of socially responsible investing.

At the end of September 2020 the policy funding ratio was 96.8%. This is too low for us to be able to increase pensions. The HPF has to base its decision on the policy funding ratio: the average funding ratio over the previous 12 months. The policy funding ratio determines whether we can raise the pensions (indexation) or must reduce them (cutback). Given this policy funding ratio there was no other alternative for the Management than to decide not to increase pensions on 1 January 2021. However, the financial position of our pension fund is still adequate not to have to cut back our pensions. Read more on this subject in our blog.