Reaction to the development of the stock markets
16 April 2025The import tariffs announced by the United States caused declines on the stock markets. Many reports about this appeared in the news last week. We can imagine this raises questions.
Every half year HEINEKEN review whether the development of market interest rates requires a change to the interest rate on the HEINEKEN savings account. As per the agreement with the Dutch tax authorities, the interest rate which HEINEKEN pays follows the yield on listed euro bonds issued by companies with a risk profile comparable to HEINEKEN. This index-rate moved slightly up over the last six months. As a consequence, the interest rate on the HEINEKEN savings account will be increased from 0.60% to 0.80% as from 1 July 2021. This percentage will apply until the next review date on 31 December 2021.
The import tariffs announced by the United States caused declines on the stock markets. Many reports about this appeared in the news last week. We can imagine this raises questions.
In 2024, we will have achieved a 12.6% return by investing the pension assets. With this result, we are in the top three of the more than 170 pension funds in the Netherlands that were surveyed by consultants from OverRendement and Bell.
We are expected to implement the new pension scheme from January 1, 2026. We are preparing for this, so that this transition is done carefully. For example, in 2024 we switched to a new pension administration system. In this administration system, we can administer our current and future pension scheme. In short: with this administration system we are ready for the future.