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If you have CustomerCapital, an amount corresponding to 5 % of your payments and single payments to your savings plan will be transferred to Individual CustomerCapital. However, for old-age savings, this only applies to single payments and payments from 1 July 2019. Individual CustomerCapital is not accumulated on transfer of pension savings from another pension plan with PFA Pension or another pension supplier.

With Individual CustomerCapital, you will receive a part of the interest which, in other pension companies, would be allocated to the owners. Individual CustomerCapital forms part of the capital base in PFA Pension, which makes up PFA Pension’s financial strength. Technically, Individual CustomerCapital is a so-called bonus provision, type B.

With Individual CustomerCapital, you, as a rule, get at least the same return every year as the interest PFA generates on the shareholders’ equity before tax. If you had CustomerCapital in 2021, the interest was 8 % before pension yield tax.

For 2022, the expected annual interest on Individual CustomerCapital is 8.0 % before pension yield tax. The entire annual interest will be distributed to the pension savings through a single addition of interest in April 2023 (provided that you still have your pension plan with PFA Pension at that time).

A positive interest on Individual CustomerCapital will be deposited into you ordinary savings plan. Any negative interest will be deducted from Individual CustomerCapital. Negative interest may occur if PFA Pension sustains a loss and Collective CustomerCapital has been exhausted and therefore cannot cover Individual CustomerCapital’s share of the loss. This is explained further in the menu "What about the risk”.

PFA Pension can choose to introduce a temporary interest on Individual CustomerCapital which can be either positive or negative. At present, the temporary interest is fixed at 0 per cent but may be subject to regular changes by PFA Pension.

Collective CustomerCapital is a special bonus provision (reserve) which PFA Pension’s owners created from the shareholders’ equity in PFA Pension.

The PFA Foundation and the organisations that own PFA established this reserve for the benefit of PFA Pension’s customers at any time who have Individual CustomerCapital. Collective CustomerCapital can contribute to increasing the interest on Individual CustomerCapital. In this way, it is possible to transfer an amount every year from Collective CustomerCapital to Individual CustomerCapital until Collective CustomerCapital has been exhausted. This means that customers with Individual CustomerCapital will be given the opportunity to receive a high interest on their Individual CustomerCapital. Over a number of years, Collective CustomerCapital will be distributed to both “existing” and “new” customers with Individual CustomerCapital.

Collective CustomerCapital is – as the name suggests – a collective reserve. This means that you will not get a share of Collective CustomerCapital if you transfer your pension plan to another pension supplier or if you cancel your pension plan.

As a rule, CustomerCapital as a whole gets at least the same interest every year as PFA Pension’s shareholders’ equity before tax.

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Along with the shareholders' equity and Collective CustomerCapital, Individual CustomerCapital forms part of PFA Pension's capital base. By placing savings in Individual CustomerCapital, PFA Pension’s customers have a share in the profit PFA Pension generates. However, Individual CustomerCapital is also to cover for any losses in PFA Pension. As long as Collective CustomerCapital remains, this will cover Individual CustomerCapital's share of any losses. When Collective CustomerCapital has been exhausted, Individual CustomerCapital will, as a rule, be subject to the same risk as the shareholders’ equity. This means that Individual CustomerCapital may be reduced (negative interest) and, in the last resort, be completely exhausted.

Accumulated Individual CustomerCapital cannot be converted into ordinary savings. Thus, deselecting CustomerCapital means that no further payments will be made to CustomerCapital.

Generally, Individual CustomerCapital will follow the cancellation of the pension plan, for instance, in connection with transfer to another pension supplier. However, this will not apply if PFA Pension does not meet the solvency requirement.

When the payouts from your average interest rate plan begin, it is no longer possible to have CustomerCapital. Instead, your individual CustomerCapital will be transferred to your savings.

As at 1 January 2019, PFA Pension has made the following changes to the terms and conditions of CustomerCapital:

1. As from 1 January 2019, any positive interest on Individual CustomerCapital will be paid into your ordinary savings plan instead of into Individual CustomerCapital.
2. As from 1 January 2019, Individual CustomerCapital will no longer be accumulated in connection with transfer of savings from other pension suppliers to PFA Pension or in connection with internal transfers in PFA Pension. This means that 5 per cent of transferred savings will no longer be placed in Individual CustomerCapital. Individual CustomerCapital will still be accumulated in the long term by means of regular payments and single payments to pension plans.

You can view the changed terms and conditions of CustomerCapital applicable to pension plans in PFA Plus in your terms and conditions of pension at My PFA under Documents.

You can view the changed terms and conditions of CustomerCapital applicable to pension plans in the average interest rate environment which are not in PFA Plus at pfa.dk/conditions, where you must enter the number “BXE170(01-19)”.