Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency publishes April report showing higher pension and fund assets and weaker Zagreb Stock Exchange turnover

The Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency has published its April 2026 monthly report on supervised entities, showing broad asset growth across pension funds and UCITS, continued expansion in insurance premiums, and a sharp drop in monthly trading on the Zagreb Stock Exchange. Mandatory pension funds’ net assets rose 2.8% month on month to EUR 27.7bn, voluntary pension funds’ net assets increased 2.9% to EUR 1.73bn, and UCITS net assets rose 2.2% to EUR 4.2bn. Insurance companies collected EUR 715.2m in premiums in the first four months of 2026, up 7.4% from a year earlier, while Zagreb Stock Exchange turnover fell 51.2% from March to EUR 50.4m even as market capitalisation increased 5.1% to EUR 57.9bn. Within pensions, mandatory funds added 1,332 members to reach 2,408,932 and recorded monthly Mirex returns of 4.35% for category A, 2.52% for category B and 0.44% for category C. Their portfolios remained bond-heavy at 56.95% of assets, though equity holdings rose to 25.4%. In voluntary funds, monthly payments fell 7.6% to EUR 12.6m and assets were led by bonds at 52.5% and equities at 29.4%. Elsewhere, first-quarter data showed pension insurance companies’ assets rose 26.9% year on year to EUR 721.5m, leasing companies’ assets increased 9.3% to EUR 4.7bn, and three factoring companies reported EUR 22.2m in assets. Among investment service providers, there were 21 authorised entities at the end of the first quarter, with investment firms’ assets under custody rising 12.1% quarter on quarter to EUR 1.9bn while credit institutions’ custody assets fell 1.7% to EUR 29.8bn.