Pension

Lifecycle

The innovative pension solution where the investment strategy evolves in step with your staff member’s age.

Wide array of Branch 23 funds

Less risk, more risk? There’s something for every employer.

Bespoke plan

Decide the number of age categories of the Lifecycle in accordance with your corporate culture. And you can choose the Branch 23 funds and the mutual ratios.

Additional risk coverage

Finance different kinds of risk coverage, such as death benefit coverage, occupational disability or waiver of premiums.

Possible as Cafeteria Plan

Integrate Lifecycle in a Cafeteria Plan (with a choice of the risk benefits).

All benefits consolidated in one handy app

With MyAG Employee Benefits, your employees can access their benefits anytime and from anywhere they want, via their computer or their app. Plus, they also benefit from services to improve their mental resilience (only via the app).

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Lifecycle in a nutshell

The Lifecycle concept allows you to adapt the Branch 23 investment strategy automatically to your staff member’s age.

At the start of his/her career, for example, you can invest the contributions for your staff member in Branch 23 funds with a high risk/high return strategy. You will then invest in percentage terms a higher proportion of the savings contribution in asset classes with a higher risk (like shares) to pursue a higher return. Any setbacks can then be more easily absorbed thanks to the long investment horizon. This is the accumulation phase.

If your staff member is approaching retirement age, the investment in the higher-risk asset classes will automatically be phased out in order to invest more percentagewise in lower-risk asset classes (such as bonds or cash). With this low risk/low return strategy, you make the entire pension nest egg safer and expose it less to market corrections. This is the consolidation phase.

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You map out the Lifecycle plan for your employees.

Important role for the employer

It's up to you to choose the personnel categories you wish to reward with group insurance and you choose the budget. You express the budget as a percentage of salary or as a lump sum. It means you know from the start the exact cost price of the plan.

You then choose, consistent with the size of your company and specifically for the Lifecycle concept:
how many age brackets you want;
for each age bracket, the fund (or funds) in which you want to invest the contributions and accrued reserves.

Transition to the next age category occurs automatically. Neither you nor your staff member needs to do anything personally.

Check out this example. Say you choose a Lifecycle concept with 7 age categories and two Branch 23 global funds, namely Rainbow Red (100% shares) and Rainbow Blue (100% bonds). For each age category you decide the maximum exposure to an asset class (for example, 90% shares (Rainbow Red) and 10% bonds (Rainbow Blue) for the youngest age category, 80/20% for the next one and so on). The higher the age category, the more defensive the investments become through a higher percentage of bonds. This enables you to make the entire saved reserves safer the closer your employee comes to retirement. For the final age category, you opt for the Rainbow Absolute Return Flexible fund, a Branch 23 fund with an investment strategy aimed at estate management.

Integrate the Lifecycle concept in a Cafetaria Plan.

Risk coverages and integration in Cafeteria Plan

Risk coverages

As the employer, you decide which additional types of risk coverage you want to offer your staff members.

death benefit

death caused by an accident

occupational disability

waiver of premiums

Each of these benefits can be financed within or above the defined budget. Even there you have a choice.

Bear in mind, however, that the Lifecycle concept applies only to the contributions for accrual of a pension nest egg, and not to the supplementary benefits.

Integration in Cafeteria Plan

When choosing the risk coverages, it's up to you to indicate whether you wish to give your staff members individual options. This will be done within the limits that you personally define: you select the benefits for which you want to offer individual options, and also determine those options.

If you give your staff members individual options, they can use MyAG Employee Benefits to run simulations 24/7 and make changes online. They will be processed automatically. If your staff members do not want to use these options, they will still enjoy the advantages that AG Employee Benefits provides for them as standard.

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AG Employee Benefits is fully committed to your digital support.

Unique advantage: digital support

AG Employee Benefits has capitalised on the digital revolution to provide additional value to its customers. For the benefit of you and your staff members, we’ve developed a unique digital platform that offers a multitude of possibilities, all in a user-friendly environment.

AG EB Online

Whether it’s to enrol new employees, manage existing plan participants or transfer other data, you’ll be happy to know that your days of endless paperwork are over. It’s all right at your fingertips with this user-friendly web application.

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MyAG Employee Benefits

It's a secure, user-friendly app and platform for plan participants to find out everything they want to know about their corporate-sponsored group insurance. On the app, your employees can access their covers, anytime and anywhere. All of the MyAG Employee Benefits features are also available via your computer, but the services are only accessible via the MyAG Employee Benefits app.

The very first fully customised web-based platform for corporate-sponsored supplementary insurance. It’s the go-to source for your staff to find out everything they need to know about their supplementary benefits you have carefully hand-picked for them via

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1. Handy features wherever and whenever your employees want them

In just a few keystrokes, your participants can check the size of their supplementary pension as well as their death benefit coverage. And that’s not all – we’ve even incorporated their healthcare plans.

2. Services to help your staff members take care of their health (only on the app)

With the MyAG Employee Benefits app, you'll be entitled to many additional services to boost your mental resilience.

Easy access to a wide range of front-line care and support to help you stay mentally and physically healthy. My Mind by AG.

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Sustainability information

Depending on the selected funds, the plan incorporates ESG factors that allow it to contribute to a positive impact on the environment and/or society and to limit negative impacts on the environment and/or society, through an appropriate selection of investments. Information on these ESG factors is available here (FR – NL). To find out more about AG's approach to sustainable and responsible investing, go to ag.be/investing/sustainability.

You will also find more information in the sustainability fact sheet (FR – NL) for each of the funds that can be included in this product as well as the corresponding annual report (FR - NL).

For customers looking to double down on their commitment to ESG, AG also offers Branch 23 (FR - NL) products that take an even more advanced approach.

Intrigued? Want to find out more?
Ask your questions about Lifecycle or request a non-binding offer via the contact button. You can also check the AG EB Invest dashboard for a clear and detailed overview of each of our funds.

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