The Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency published its monthly statistics covering second and third pillar pension funds, insurance, the Zagreb Stock Exchange and UCITS, reporting broad-based growth in assets and activity through December 2024 and across 2024. Mandatory pension funds (MPFs) ended December 2024 with 2,333,992 members and net assets of EUR 23.2bn, up 0.7% on the month and 14.8% year on year. Net contributions paid in December totalled EUR 135.3m, while payments linked to personal account closures were EUR 41.9m, with 2024 net contributions reaching EUR 1.5bn (up 20.7%) and annual payments due to account closures totalling HRK 398.4m (up 33.1%). Monthly nominal Mirex returns were 0.28% for category A, 0.33% for category B and 0.30% for category C, with annual returns of 13.27%, 9.68% and 3.55% respectively; bonds remained the largest asset class at 60.8% of MPF assets. In the third pillar, open-ended and closed-ended voluntary pension fund membership reached 417,157 and 49,609 respectively, with December payments into voluntary pension funds of EUR 64.6m and December payments out of EUR 5.3m. Insurance market data showed 14 insurers operating, with 2024 gross written premium of EUR 1.9bn (up 9.9%) and claims settled of EUR 1.3bn (up 8.3%). On the Zagreb Stock Exchange, December turnover was EUR 43.4m and 2024 turnover EUR 459.4m, while market capitalisation rose to EUR 50.3bn and the CROBEX index recorded a 25.9% annual increase. UCITS net assets reached EUR 3.2bn at end-December (up 41.0% versus end-2023), supported by positive net payments of EUR 25.8m in December and EUR 768.6m across 2024; the Fund for Croatian Homeland War Veterans and Members of their Families ended December with EUR 217.3m in net assets and a 2.0% monthly return.

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