Driven by rising stock prices, the total market value of Dutch companies reached an all-time high of EUR 1,407 billion in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 13.6% quarter on quarter.
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At the end of the first quarter of 2021, the balance sheet of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) amounted to no less than EUR 464 billion. This is an increase of EUR 149 billion (47%) compared to February 2020, just before the global outbreak of COVID-19, when DNB's balance sheet totalled EUR 314 billion.
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In the first quarter of 2021, Dutch pension funds saw their financial position improve again. Due to rising interest rates in financial markets, the value of aggregate liabilities fell EUR 111 billion to EUR 1,576 billion, outstripping the EUR 15 billion decline in aggregate assets to EUR 1,676....
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The surplus on the current account of the Dutch balance of payments in 2020 came to EUR 62 billion, or 7.8% of gross domestic product (GDP).
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In 2020, buy-to-let mortgages amounting to EUR 1.4 billion were packaged through securitisation and sold to investors. This accounts for one third of the total residential mortgage loans of EUR 4.2 billion that were securitised in 2020.
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Households deposited a record EUR 3.8 billion in Dutch investment funds in 2020. This boosted their assets managed by investment funds to EUR 47.3 billion.
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Households deposited almost EUR 42 billion into their bank and savings accounts with Dutch banks in 2020, which is twice as much as in 2019. The main reasons for this are the containment measures and the increased economic uncertainty related to the coronavirus crisis.
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In the fourth quarter of 2020, Dutch pension funds saw their financial position improve again. Their combined managed assets went up EUR 94 billion to EUR 1,691 billion, while liabilities went up EUR 12 billion to EUR 1,687 billion.
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The assets managed by insurers and pension funds increased to EUR 2,112 billion at the end of the third quarter of 2020, which was higher than before the coronavirus crisis. This was mainly due to the recovery of stock exchange prices worldwide.
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The third quarter of 2020 has seen improvement in the financial position of pension funds. Their assets went up EUR 41 billion to EUR 1,596 billion. In the same quarter, their liabilities increased by EUR 1 billion to EUR 1,675 billion. With the growth in assets outstripping that in liabilities...
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Insurance claims for non-life insurers fell by 5% in the second quarter of 2020 from EUR 2.88 to 2.74 billion. The volume of motor insurance claims decreased particularly, due to the coronavirus crisis. Claims relating to occupational disability and ...
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The surplus on the current account of the Dutch balance of payments fell by 7% (year-on-year) to EUR 12.6 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2020, the lowest it has been in four years. This corresponds to 6.6% of Dutch gross domestic product (GDP), see Figure 1. ...
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