Pictet LPP Indices

These indices are designated with the acronym of LPP, a reference to the Loi sur la prévoyance professionnelle (Swiss Federal Law on Occupational Retirement Survivors’ and Disability Pension Plans), which came into force in 1985.

The LPP indices were subsequently adjusted several times, in 1993, 2000, 2005 and 2015. Since then, they have been regarded as benchmark indices in the Swiss pension fund sector.

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• Pictet LPP 2000
• Pictet LPP 2005
• Pictet LPP 2015

The introduction of the Pictet LPP Indices 2000 allowed the requirements of numerous pension funds to be taken into account through the publication of three risk profiles.

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• Pictet LPP 2000

Key points

The innovations of the Pictet LPP Indices 2000 include:

• The investment limits of the OPP2 (Swiss Federal Law on Occupational Retirement Survivors’ and Disability Pension Plans) are not binding;
• The equities portion of two of the three indices are considerably higher;
• The equity investments are broadly diversified;
• For foreign currency risks a clear distinction is made between equities and bonds;
• EURO bonds represent a new investment category;
• Foreign equities now also include emerging markets;
• The bond indices now contain both government and corporate debt paper.

The Pictet LPP Indices 2005 introduced alternative investment categories (hedge funds, private equity) and used broad indices for the traditional categories, including emerging country debt and high yield bonds, as well as emerging markets and small cap companies for equities.

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• Pictet LPP 2005

Key points

The innovations of the Pictet LPP 2005 are the following:

• Equities World are more broadly diversified by including small caps
• Bonds World include high yield and emerging market bonds
• Real Estate Switzerland and World are included
• Hedge Funds are included
• Private Equity are included
• Foreign currency risk for Bonds World and Hedge Funds is hedged into CHF

The family of Pictet LPP Indices 2015 offers strategic allocations that are efficient to implement. These indices feature explicit allocations to specific investment categories such as emerging debt, corporate bonds in euros, small cap equities, Swiss real estate and absolute return strategies.

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• Pictet LPP 2015

Key points

The Pictet LPP 2015 indices differ from the Pictet LPP 2000 and 2005 indices in the following ways in particular:

• Reduced bond weighting in favour of Swiss real estate and "absolute return" strategies with potential for more favourable long-term returns.
• Within bonds, reduction in the home country bias relating to Swiss franc bonds in favour of three well-defined segments: sovereign issuers in the developed countries, emerging market debt in local currency, and corporate bonds in euros.
• Within international equities, addition of small caps to the allocation grid.
• As previously mentioned, addition of Swiss real estate and "absolute return" strategies in order to benefit from additional risk premia and significant diversification effects.
• Hedging of foreign currency risk relating to bonds ex emerging debt and to "absolute return" strategies.

How we calculate the performance

To calculate the performance, weightings are rebalanced or adjusted at the end of every month (meaning that, at the start of the month, the original portfolio structure is "restored"), whereas during the course of the month, a buy-and-hold strategy is adopted.

Since the data received from our providers may change retrospectively, we calculate the LPP indices in the following manner.

Each day, the daily performances of the LPP indices for the last 3 months are re-calculated using a 3-month history of the sub-indices. Thus, we ensure that LPP-indices and the underlying sub-indices are consistent.

This procedure implies that there may be changes in the data already published.

Therefore, we kindly advise you to always check our most recent data before using any previously downloaded performance history.