Pillar 1 comprises the AHV (old-age and survivors’ insurance) and the DI (disability insurance). It is mandatory for everyone employed in Switzerland and guarantees a basic minimum income in ...

The Swiss pension and social security system is something of a success story. It offers individuals and families living and working in Switzerland extensive protection against risks whose financial ...

State Street Corp. is at risk of losing a $52 billion pile of Swiss pension assets as citizens start to worry that their savings might become a bargaining chip in Donald Trump’s deepening trade war ...

State Street, the Boston-based asset manager, will continue to oversee CHF 46 billion of Swiss pension funds after a narrow ...

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) An ever growing number of retirees in Switzerland are withdrawing their pension capital and emigrating to cheaper countries – some out of necessity, others by choice.

The Swiss government's lower house on Thursday narrowly rejected a bill that sought to move 46B francs ($52B) of pension funds back under domestic control and away from Boston-based State Street (STT) ...

The country's largest pension fund, BVK, for example, holds the 43 billion Swiss francs of 142,000 policyholders, current and retired civil servants from the canton of Zurich, the most populous in ...

U.B.: We voted on the conversion rate for the so-called second pillar of the Swiss pension system [a fixed percentage used to calculate the level of annual pension payments based on the amount of ...

The Swiss government has admitted to miscalculating its pension forecasts ... even though they are necessary to ensure the system's sustainability," he added. Isabel Z. Martínez, senior ...

State Street Corp. will remain custodian of a 46 billion-franc Swiss pension hoard after lawmakers narrowly rejected a bid to reassert domestic control as a guard against US strong-arming of the ...

State Street is at risk of losing a $52 billion pile of Swiss pension assets as citizens start to worry that their savings might become a bargaining chip in Donald Trump’s deepening trade war with ...

ETH Zurich is subject to the Swiss social security system, which is based on a three-tiered pension scheme and compulsory accident insurance. In addition to this, ETH Zurich offers its employees ...