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Pensionskasse Gemeinde Männedorf
Pensionskasse Gemeinde Männedorf operates as the statutory pension fund for employees of the Municipality of Männedorf, a town on Lake Zurich's right bank.
Pensionskasse Gemeinde Männedorf
Pensionskasse Gemeinde Männedorf operates as the statutory pension fund for employees of the Municipality of Männedorf, a town on Lake Zurich's right bank. The fund's board is chaired by Didier Fatio, who also serves as the municipality's Head of Finance, maintaining a tight link between the sponsoring employer and the pension scheme's governance. His predecessor, Giampaolo Fabris, previously held both the board presidency and the municipal finance director role, reflecting a pattern of integrated financial oversight. The fund's investment strategy blends direct property holdings with institutional fund commitments. Its known assets include a residential portfolio in Männedorf itself and a position in the Swisscanto AST Immobilien Portfolio, a widely used Swiss real estate investment foundation vehicle. The geographic focus remains overwhelmingly domestic, as is common for small-to-midsize Swiss public pension funds, which typically allocate heavily to Swiss real estate, Swiss bonds, and Swiss equities. Governance is split between employer and employee representatives on the board, with named employer-side members including Peter Diermann and Patrick Eberle — the latter also sitting on the board of Zentrum Allmendhof AG, an affiliated institution whose employees are insured through the fund's Vorsorgeplan 2. Employee representatives include Roger Leeger, Barbara Weber-Torri, and Seraina Billeter. The fund's public AUM is undisclosed, but its scale is consistent with a small municipal pension fund, likely below CHF 500 million. The fund's structural differentiator is its legally defined, closed participant base. Unlike a commercial multi-employer pension platform, it exists solely to serve one municipality and its closely related entities. This prevents asset-pooling flexibility but ensures a direct accountability chain: the municipality is both sponsor and governance participant, while the pension fund's investment committee operates under Swiss BVG/KKG regulatory structures that limit risk-taking.
General information
Firm type
Pension Fund
Location
Region
Europe
Country
Switzerland
City
Männedorf
Corporate office
Neuhaus, Männedorf, Switzerland
Principals
Didier Fatio
President of the Board (Stiftungsratspräsident)
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Pensionskasse Gemeinde Männedorf?
Investment governance rests with the Stiftungsrat (board), chaired since 2022 by Didier Fatio, who also heads finance for the Municipality of Männedorf. The previous president, Giampaolo Fabris, held the role while serving as municipal finance director. Day-to-day portfolio management is typically delegated to external asset managers and investment foundations like Swisscanto, a common practice for Swiss public pension funds of this size.
Is Pensionskasse Gemeinde Männedorf open to external employers or employees?
No. It is a closed, single-employer public pension fund serving the Municipality of Männedorf and affiliated entities such as Zentrum Allmendhof AG. Employees of the municipality are insured through multiple plan tiers, including a dedicated Vorsorgeplan 2 for the affiliated institution's staff. External companies cannot join.
What is the fund's known real estate exposure?
The fund holds a direct residential portfolio located in Männedorf, Switzerland. It also invests through the Swisscanto AST Immobilien Portfolio, an investment foundation vehicle that pools assets from multiple Swiss pension funds to access a diversified domestic real estate portfolio. Exact allocation percentages are not publicly disclosed.
How is the governance structured between employer and employee representatives?
Swiss law requires parity or near-parity representation on pension fund boards. Named employer-side board members include Peter Diermann and Patrick Eberle. Employee representatives include Roger Leeger, Barbara Weber-Torri, and Seraina Billeter. The board president, Didier Fatio, represents the employer side as the municipality's Head of Finance.
Does the fund disclose its assets under management?
No public AUM figure is published. The fund's narrow participant base — limited to employees of one midsize Swiss municipality and a related entity — suggests total assets are modest, placing it among the smaller of Switzerland's roughly 1,400 pension funds.
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