Finnish earnings-related pensions solvency ratio drops to 130.3%

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Finnish earnings-related pensions solvency ratio drops to 130.3%

By Natalie Tuck

15/09/22

The solvency ratio of Finnish earnings-related pension providers dropped to 130.3 per cent at the end of June 2022, according to data published by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA).

This is a drop of 3.6 percentage points from the end of March, when the solvency ratio stood at 133.9 per cent.

Earnings-related pension providers comprise private-sector pension insurers, i.e. pension insurance companies, company pension funds and industry-wide pension funds.

Broken down, pension insurance companies’ average solvency ratio was 130.3 per cent, while that of company funds and industry-wide funds was 142.9 per cent.

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