Staples pension fund was identified by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) as a vulnerable fund in 2014, due to the increasing number of its retired participants. Staples pension fund is aware of the situation and has studied how to make the pension fund future-proof in the long term. The pension fund has formulated a detailed vulnerability matrix in which factors such as the various requirements of DNB are included. Various options are being considered, such as affiliation to an industry pension fund or a transfer to an insurer. Based on the results of this study, Staples pension fund currently sees no reason to take the fund in a different direction. The Board regularly repeats its analysis and continually monitors the fund’s position.

The newsletter on the annual report will be published in July, and will give further details of the position of the pension fund.