Today you will receive the annual report summary 2017.  We look back on the most important developments in 2017.  In the annual report summary you can find information about the future of the fund. Also have a look at the infographic with the most important facts and figures from 2017. Do you prefer reading the annual report summary online? You can find it here.  

Staples has decided that with effect from 1 July 2018, all Staples employees will accrue their pension in the LifeSight defined contribution scheme (the premiums pension institution of Willis Towers Watson).  Staples employees entering employment since 1 January 2015 have already been participating in this scheme since that time. The pension accrued until 1 July 2018 will remain with the pension fund. All members still accruing a pension will be sent a letter from the pension fund in September explaining the implications for their pension with the Staples pension fund.

  Sign up for the newsletter Today all subscribers have received the digital newsletter. In this edition you will read more about the financial situation, feasibility test, the Summary Annual Report and the outcome of the participant survey. You also read that your pension fund has become a closed fund and that all employees have switched to a defined contribution plan as of 1 July.  Click here for the Digital newsletter August 2018.  

Pension Fund Staples' policy funding ratio was 123.5% at the end of July 2018. The funding ratio of a pension fund specifies the ratio between the assets and the liabilities, and is an indicator of the financial position of a pension fund. The policy funding ratio is the average actual funding ratio of the last 12 months. The actual funding ratio increased from 122.5% at the end of June 2018 to 124.4% at the end of July. More information on this topic on the page Funding ratio.

The pension fund conducts a feasibility test every year. The feasibility test provides insight into the relationship between the financial configuration, the expected pension result and the associated risks. In 2015 the Board set the pension fund’s (long-term) risk attitude, thus defining the lower limits for the pension result. The expected pension result is then tested against these limits each year. The outcomes of the test show that the expected pension result meets the pre-defined limits and that it will continue to do so even if the fund experiences difficult times in the future. More in...

A new digital newsletter was dispatched at the end of April, the theme of which was 'the Uniform Pension Statement'.  Your Uniform pension Statement shows the amount of pension you have accrued with the Staples Pension Fund. The newsletter also provides details about the fund’s financial positions and the updated MyStaplesPension website.   Read the newsletter here.   

The Staples Pension Fund Annual Report for 2017 has been published, in which the Board accounts for the policy it has implemented and provides details of the financial results.  In 2017 the pension fund’s financial position improved to such an extent that the recovery plan is no longer needed. Since June 2017, the policy funding ratio has been higher than the legally-required funding ratio. Prior to the, from mid-2016, the pension fund has a reserve shortfall. At the end of December 2017 the policy funding ratio was sufficiently high (122.0%, compared to 111.9% at the end of 2016) fo...

At Mijnpensioenoverzicht.nl you will find a list of all of the pensions you have accrued. From 1 January 2018 the pension details in the list will be refreshed every quarter, so you will always have and up-to-date list of your accrued pensions. Login using your DigiD. Go to Mijnpensioenoverzicht.nl.  

Pension Fund Staples' policy funding ratio was 123.4% at the end of June 2018. The funding ratio of a pension fund specifies the ratio between the assets and the liabilities, and is an indicator of the financial position of a pension fund. The policy funding ratio is the average actual funding ratio of the last 12 months. The actual funding ratio has decreased from 123.1% at the end of May 2018 to 122.5% at the end of June. More information on this topic on the page Funding ratio.

Pension Fund Staples' policy funding ratio was 123.3% at the end of May 2018. The funding ratio of a pension fund specifies the ratio between the assets and the liabilities, and is an indicator of the financial position of a pension fund. The policy funding ratio is the average actual funding ratio of the last 12 months. The actual funding ratio has decreased from 123.0% at the end of April 2018 to 123.1% at the end of May. More information on this topic on the page Funding ratio.