Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency reports January 2025 rise in mandatory pension fund assets to EUR 23.8bn and UCITS assets to EUR 3.3bn

The Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency published its latest monthly statistics across pensions, insurance, capital markets and other supervised sectors, showing asset growth in both second and third pillar pension funds and in UCITS, alongside higher Zagreb Stock Exchange market capitalisation despite a sharp drop in turnover. Mandatory pension funds (MPFs) ended January 2025 with 2,339,415 members (+0.23% month on month) and net assets of EUR 23.8bn (+2.6%). Net contributions in January totalled EUR 131.8m, while payments due to personal account closures totalled EUR 31.6m. Bond holdings were EUR 14.2bn (59.6% of assets) and equities were EUR 5.8bn (24.5%), with Mirex monthly returns of 3.74% (A), 2.26% (B) and 0.13% (C). Voluntary pension funds’ net assets rose to EUR 1.48bn (+2.5%), with monthly payments into funds of EUR 12.9m and payments out of funds of EUR 7.2m. In insurance, 14 companies collected EUR 153.5m in premium in January 2025 (EUR 22.8m life and EUR 130.8m non-life) and settled EUR 91.9m of claims. On the Zagreb Stock Exchange, January turnover was EUR 73.2m (-53.1% month on month) while market capitalisation increased to EUR 52.6bn (+4.5%), with CROBEX up 9.1%. UCITS numbered 117 with net assets of EUR 3.3bn (+3.4%) and net inflows of EUR 64.2m, and the Fund for Croatian Homeland War Veterans and Members of their Families reported net assets of EUR 232.7m (+7.1%). The release also reported end-2024 figures for investment service providers (21 authorised entities), leasing companies (assets of EUR 4.1bn, +17.5% year on year) and factoring companies (three firms with classic factoring volume of EUR 72.5m).