Swiss Institutional Investors

Henri B. Meier (), John E. Marthinsen (), Pascal A. Gantenbein () and Samuel S. Weber ()
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John E. Marthinsen: Babson College
Pascal A. Gantenbein: University of Basel
Samuel S. Weber: SSW, Independent Wealth Manager

Chapter Chapter 6 in Swiss Finance, 2023, pp 297-333 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Institutional Investors, such as insurance companies, pension funds, real estate funds, and mutual funds, have become critically important players in the Swiss financial market. They channel capital from a multitude of investors, such as households, businesses, and the government, into asset classes like equities, debt, commodities, and real estate. The social security system plays a key role in this, together with the state-run basic benefit plan, the mandatory occupational pension scheme, and private savings. Insurance companies, comprising life insurance, non-life insurance, and reinsurance business activities, along with the growing class of collective investment schemes, have become enormous sources of investment capital, deciding about their allocation—unfortunately not in the best interest of their contributors’ future, also because of increasingly comprehensive regulations.

Keywords: Financial intermediaries; Bancassurance; Three-pillar concept of social security; Collective capital investment; Insurance; Pension funds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-23194-0_6

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