Capital and Income from Costa Rican Pension Funds

Up until June this year, statutory and complementary pensions amounted to $3.71 billion, surpassing basic pension regimes which had $3.61 billion.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

The profits that this system has accrued are due to the fact that the investments of the administered fund had returns of around 20% between June 2012 and December 2013. In this way this system became the largest in terms of the amount of resources.

"The total balance managed by operators is $5 billion (including the Labor Capitalization Fund and voluntary pensions) this means that through performance an extra $1 billion has been made," said Edgar Robles, Superintendent of Pensions.

However, Robles said that maintaining this trend will depend on the next investments made by the operators. "Most of the resources of the statutory pension scheme (65%) are concentrated in government bonds and those of the Central Bank, the private sector follows with 13%, according to data from the first half of the year. This last segment had a decline compared to the same period in 2012," noted an article in Nacion.com.

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