CB Golodets denied the words of the losses of future retirees – RBC

Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets

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The Bank of Russia called the wrong word vice-premier Olga Golodets that in the past year, the Russians lost in the private pension funds more than 200 billion rubles .

The Bank of Russia has denied the words of Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets that the Russians lost in 2015 to 200 billion rubles. Data on losses from the investment of pension savings in the amount of 200 billion rubles. wrong, said the press service of the Bank of Russia in response to a request to RBC. Speaking at the Russian Business Week on Wednesday, March 23, Golodets said that loss of Russians who have entrusted their future pensions to non-state funds in 2015 amounted to more than 200 billion rubles., So it is necessary to take measures for the protection of citizens’ . Later, a spokesman for Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Levchenko explained RBC, we are talking about the amount that citizens have lost as a result of the fact that private funds effectively invested pension money in 2014. According to him, according to OECD data, in 2014 the average return on investment of pension savings amounted to -7,4%.

« At the end of 2014 citizens of pension savings which govern NPF received a total income of more than 60 billion rubles., which corresponds to an annual yield of 5.5%. In 2015, the industry, according to preliminary data, the improved results – the total income amounted to 172 billion rubles », -. According to the press service of the Central Bank <. / p>

According to the Bank of Russia, the history of the pension funds only once showed a zero rate of return – in the 2008 crisis. These losses were offset by higher revenues in the next two years (39% over the period).

Central Bank noted that the pension money management strategy is a long investment horizon. “In this regard, efforts to assess performance of the NPF on a narrow time interval are incorrect and may mislead the public”, – said in a statement the regulator press service

According to the CBA, in 2014 private domestic pension. funds earned for its customers from -5.2 to 42.2% per annum in rubles. However, no major NPF or private management, or VEB could not get around inflation, which was 11.4%. The results are much better than in 2015: according to the Bank of Russia, in the first half of 2015 61 out of 87 fund showed a yield above inflation, which was 8.5% per annum for the first half. The average yield of APF for the six months amounted to 9.89% per annum.

According to NAPF estimated that at the end of 2015 about 60% of pension funds received a yield above inflation. For example, the yield on pension savings investment NPF Savings Bank was 9.54%, said CEO of RBC Foundation Galina Morozova. General Director of “VTB Pension Fund” Larissa Gorchakovskii said that distribution of returns on account of insured persons amounted to 10.44%. A yield of KIT Finance NPF was 14.5% per annum, according to the foundation’s Web site.