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De vraag is nu of de overgang naar nieuwe regelingen onder WTP, de behoefte voor een fiduciaire dienstverlening gaat ­beïnvloeden. Wij verwachten dat onder de nieuwe Wet Toekomst Pensioenen, de rol van systemen, modellen, beleggingskennis en transactie-ervaring steeds crucialer wordt, en daar mee ook de toegevoegde waarde van de fiduciair. De functies die de fiduciair manager vervult, worden feitelijk belangrijker onder WTP. In deze bijdrage beschrijven we de eerste twee secties fiduciair management en WTP. De secties daarna beschrijven we hoe de introductie van WTP de behoefte naar fiduciair management versterkt. Van informatie, communicatie en geldstromen, tot beleggen

Ik kan mezelf wel voor mijn kop slaan. In 2021 kocht ik een nieuw huis en sloot een hypotheek af tegen een ultralage rente. Echt zo ultralaag, dat ik je vijftien jaar geleden waarschijnlijk keihard had uitgelachen als je me dat had verteld. Ik herinner me uit die tijd hoe een collega me trots vertelde dat hij zijn hypotheek tegen 4% rente had vastgezet. Goed geregeld, vonden we toen.

Collateral management is a different game since 2022, in its July 2022 meeting, the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to increase its three key interest rates by 50 basis points (0.5%): the interest rate on the main refinancing operations, the interest rate on the marginal lending facility, and the interest rate on the deposit facility (ECB, July 2022). This measure surprised the market with its magnitude, but not with its direction, as the growing inflation in the eurozone demanded a complete change in monetary policy. This event also marked the beginning of a series of consecutive increases that have reshaped financial markets, signaling the end of an era informally known as the ‘free money era.’

After a period of low and even negative interest rates in 2020 and 2021, rates soared in 2022 and have remained high. In this article we want to address several topics. First, we illustrate what the impact on expected returns has been with a Capital Market Assumptions (CMA) model. One of the main observations is that the risk premium of equities versus bonds has declined. The second section provides explanations as well as justifications. In short, a lower equity risk premium (ERP) is not just a reflection of equities being expensive, but is justified as bonds have become riskier relative to equities. Finally, we show the extent to which the change in interest rates and CMAs leads to different ‘optimised’ portfolios. The rise in yields and the lower ERP result in more fixed income assets and fewer equities in portfolios in 2024 than in 2020. Optimised fixed income portfolios, from an asset only perspective, consist of cash and spread products, but do not contain any government bonds. That holds for both 2020 and 2024. Furthermore, the rise in riskfree yields has resulted in IG Corporates gaining a place in the spread portfolios at the expense of riskier spread products such as emerging market debt (EMD) and high yield. Within equities, developed markets have become less attractive compared to emerging markets due to increased volatility. Finally, lower risk portfolios have experienced an increase in expected return benefitting from higher yields, while higher risk portfolios have become more diversified, as differences in expected returns between (fixed income and equity) asset classes have become smaller.