Financial balance sheets and transactions by sectors; National Accounts

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Assets

Insurance and pension schemes

Insurance, pension and standardised guarantee schemes are divided into six subcategories:
- non-life insurance technical reserves
- life insurance and annuity entitlements
- pension entitlements
- claims of pension funds on pension managers
- entitlements to non-pension benefits
- provisions for calls under standardised guarantees

Life insurance and annuity entitlements

Life insurance and annuity entitlements consist of financial claims that life insurance policy holders and beneficiaries of annuities have against corporations providing life insurance.

Pension entitlements and claims

Pension entitlements comprise financial claims that current employees and former employees hold against either:
a) their employers;
b) a scheme designated by the employer to pay pensions as part of a compensation agreement between the employer and the employee
c) an insurer.

Other claims concern claims of pension funds on pension managers and entitlements to non-pension benefits.

Total

Pension entitlements comprise financial claims that current employees and former employees hold against either:
a) their employers;
b) a scheme designated by the employer to pay pensions as part of a compensation agreement between the employer and the employee
c) an insurer.

Other claims concern claims of pension funds on pension managers and entitlements to non-pension benefits.

Pension entitlements

Pension entitlements comprise financial claims that current employees and former employees hold against either:
a) their employers;
b) a scheme designated by the employer to pay pensions as part of a compensation agreement between the employer and the employee;
c) an insurer.

Other claims

Other entitlements and claims consist of claims of pension funds on pension managers and entitlements to non-pension benefits.

Claims on pension managers

An employer may contract with a third party to look after the pension funds for his employees. If the employer continues to determine the terms of the pension schemes and retains the responsibility for any deficit in funding as well as the right to retain any excess funding, the employer is described as the pension manager and the unit working under the direction of the pension manger is described as the pension administrator. If the agreement between the employer and the third party is such that the employer passes the risks and responsibilities for any deficit in funding to the third part in return for the right of the third party to retain any excess, the third party becomes the pension manager as well as the administrator.

Rights on non-pension entitlements

In the Netherlands, this includes rights on early retirement arrangements. These rights are part of a transition scheme for early retirement committed by many employers to their employees in 2006 and 2007 after the general early retirement arrangement ended. Contributions to this arrangement are part of social premiums of employers (and employees). However, due to the conditional aspects of the rights, the rights are classified as non-pension entitlements.

Liabilities

Insurance, pension and guarantee schemes

Insurance, pension and standardised guarantee schemes are divided into six subcategories:
- non-life insurance technical reserves
- life insurance and annuity entitlements
- pension entitlements
- claims of pension funds on pension managers
- entitlements to non-pension benefits
- provisions for calls under standardised guarantees

Life insurance and annuity entitlements

Life insurance and annuity entitlements consist of financial claims that life insurance policy holders and beneficiaries of annuities have against corporations providing life insurance.

Pension entitlements and claims

Pension entitlements comprise financial claims that current employees and former employees hold against either:
a) their employers;
b) a scheme designated by the employer to pay pensions as part of a compensation agreement between the employer and the employee
c) an insurer.

Other claims concern claims of pension funds on pension managers and entitlements to non-pension benefits.

Total

Pension entitlements comprise financial claims that current employees and former employees hold against either:
a) their employers;
b) a scheme designated by the employer to pay pensions as part of a compensation agreement between the employer and the employee
c) an insurer.

Other claims concern claims of pension funds on pension managers and entitlements to non-pension benefits.

Pension entitlements

Pension entitlements comprise financial claims that current employees and former employees hold against either:
a) their employers;
b) a scheme designated by the employer to pay pensions as part of a compensation agreement between the employer and the employee;
c) an insurer.

Other claims

Other entitlements and claims consist of claims of pension funds on pension managers and entitlements to non-pension benefits.

Claims on pension managers

An employer may contract with a third party to look after the pension funds for his employees. If the employer continues to determine the terms of the pension schemes and retains the responsibility for any deficit in funding as well as the right to retain any excess funding, the employer is described as the pension manager and the unit working under the direction of the pension manger is described as the pension administrator. If the agreement between the employer and the third party is such that the employer passes the risks and responsibilities for any deficit in funding to the third part in return for the right of the third party to retain any excess, the third party becomes the pension manager as well as the administrator.

Rights on non-pension entitlements

In the Netherlands, this includes rights on early retirement arrangements. These rights are part of a transition scheme for early retirement committed by many employers to their employees in 2006 and 2007 after the general early retirement arrangement ended. Contributions to this arrangement are part of social premiums of employers (and employees). However, due to the conditional aspects of the rights, the rights are classified as non-pension entitlements.