03.26.2025

Private pension funds' total assets reached RON156.44 billion at the end of December 2024, up 19% versus 2023, in line with data provided by Romania’s Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF). more

01.27.2025

Around 133,000 Romanians started in 2024 saving for retirement via voluntary private pensions (Pillar III), 40% more than in 2023 and an all-time high in terms of the number of new clients attracted more

01.13.2025

BCR Pensii and BRD Pensii, Pillar II private pension funds, which manage pensions for 1.4 million people, bought into pharmaceutical producer Antibiotice Iasi (ATB.RO), spending RON50 million during more

10.07.2024

The seven Pillar II private pension funds in Romania, in which 8.2 million Romanian employees contribute with part of their monthly gross income for private retirement savings, have reached record more

09.24.2024

Romania’s future retirees, that is about 8.3 million people contributing to Pillar II mandatory pension funds are the biggest investors of Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO), data aggregated by ZF show. more

09.03.2024

Premier Energy (PE.RO) a recent addition to the main market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, attracted eight Pillar II and Pillar III pension funds at its listing in May, which bought a little more more

08.20.2024

NN announced that it paid over RON575 million in the first half of 2024 to life, health, and home insurance clients and to participants to private pension funds managed by NN, which translates into a more

08.19.2024

One Pillar II pension fund, Metropolitan Life Pensii Private, bought 35% of the MedLife (M.RO) shares traded on the Bucharest Stock Exchange in June 2024, data aggregated by ZF show. more

07.04.2024

Aripi, BCR Pensii, BRD Pensii and Metropolitan Life Pensii Private are the Pillar II private pension funds that sold about 3.4 million Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO) shares in May, as their investment in more

06.06.2024

Aripi, BCR Pensii, BRD Pensii, Metropolitan Life Pensii Private and NN Pensii are the Pillar II private pension funds that were active on the Bucharest Stock Exchange in April 2024, conducting more

05.27.2024

NN Pensii, Romania's largest Pillar II private pension fund, to which 2 million Romanian employees contribute part of their gross monthly income, has become a shareholder of Premier Energy (PE.RO), more

05.13.2024

Mandatory private pension funds (Pillar II) have in the past 16 years, since their launch in 2008, registered an average yield of 7.8% per annum, among the highest in Europe and OECD during this more

05.08.2024

Voluntary private pension funds in Romania (Pillar III) exceeded the threshold of EUR5 billion in net assets managed in March 2024, up 3.1% compared to February 2024, in line with calculations by more

03.26.2024

Private medical service provider MedLife (M.RO) notified the Bucharest Stock Exchange on Tuesday that the private pension fund Metropolitan Life had reported owning more than 5% of the voting rights. more

03.14.2024

Romania had some 4.98 million pensioners at the end of 2023, fewer by 11 thousand people than in the fourth quarter of 2022, and the monthly average pension was RON2,125, up 13.9%, according to data more

02.29.2024

NN paid insurance customers and private pensions participants a total RON983 million in 2023, higher by 27% than in 2022. more

01.26.2024

Danube freight carrier Transport Trade Services (TTS.RO) notified investors on Friday about a shareholder exceeding the 5% stake threshold. That shareholder is Metropolitan Life Pensii Private, one of more

01.15.2024

Private pension funds in Romania on the mandatory (Pillar II) segment made payments worth over RON2 billion (EUR400 million) to almost 153,000 participants and heirs (beneficiaries) in the last 15 more

01.08.2024

The seven mandatory private pension funds in Romania (Pillar II) generated an annual average yield of 17.9% in 2023, the best annual performance in the entire history of the system and over 10% above more

12.04.2023

All seven mandatory private pension funds in Romania, known as Pillar II, the largest investors at the Bucharest Stock Exchange and the second largest buyer of bonds issued by the finance ministry, more

11.08.2023

BNP Paribas, the largest bank in France, raised RON100 million from private pension fund Vital managed by Aegon in September, at a 7.35% yield per year and September 12, 2028 as maturity, as part of more

11.06.2023

Romania has been elected as member of the Executive Committee of the International Organization of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) for the 2024-2025 period. more

10.13.2023

The seven mandatory private pension funds in Romania (Pillar II) generated an annual average yield of 18% between September 2022 and September 2023, for the 8 million Romanian participants. more

08.30.2023

The largest investment in the portfolio of private pension fund Aripi, managed by Generali, was in Romania's largest electricity producer, Hidroelectrica (H2O), on July 31, 2023. more

04.28.2023

Metropolitan Life Pensii Private, the manager of the third largest Pillar II pension fund in Romania after NN Pensii and AZT Viitorul Tau, went shopping in March 2023 and increased its stakes in more