2025-11-15 | Resolución SBS 4081-2025The Peruvian Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and Private Pension Fund Administrators (SBS) issued Resolution No. 4081-2025 to temporarily modify Title VI of its Investment Compendium, granting AFPs extraordinary measures to mitigate portfolio impacts from the Law 32445-mandated member withdrawals. The resolution authorizes cross-fund transfers of local equity instruments, bilateral repo and government bond lending operations, relaxed foreign currency trading limits, internal sovereign debt issuer caps, and temporary derivative acquisitions, all with non-imputable excesses until July 2026. These measures require AFPs to maintain fiduciary duties, apply prudent risk management criteria, and report transfer intentions by December 3, 2025, ensuring sustained portfolio performance and future pension replacement rates.
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SBS RESOLUTION No. 4081-2025
The Superintendent of Banking, Insurance and Private Pension Fund Administrators
CONSIDERING Whereas Supreme Decree No. 054-97-EF approved the Consolidated Text of the Law of the Private Pension Fund Administration System, hereinafter the SPP Law; Whereas Supreme Decree No. 004-98-EF approved the Regulations of said SPP Law; Whereas Law No. 32445 exceptionally and optionally authorized all members of the Private Pension Fund Administration System (SPP), without exception, to withdraw up to four Taxable Income Units (4 UIT) from the accumulated funds in their respective individual capitalization accounts; Whereas the early withdrawal of pension funds affects the investment strategy established by Private Pension Fund Administrators (AFP), as liquidity demand to cover members' early withdrawals generates the need for immediate and/or progressive asset sales, affecting the composition and performance of managed portfolios and, consequently, the expected replacement rate provided by the SPP; Whereas, in this context, it is a priority to approve the following extraordinary investment measures to provide AFPs with necessary instruments to mitigate impacts on expected replacement rates and future member pensions resulting from the extraordinary withdrawal authorized by Law No. 32445: allow the extraordinary transfer of local equity instruments from type 3 funds to type 1 and/or type 2 funds, under specific technical conditions; temporarily authorize bilateral repo operations with financial system companies without the need for an intermediary agent; allow inter-fund lending of Peruvian government bonds, with guarantees and market-rate returns; temporarily relax trading limits applicable to foreign currency purchase and sale operations; establish internal issuer limits for investments in foreign sovereign debt rated above BBB-, considering each fund's risk profile; and temporarily authorize the acquisition of derivative instruments, such as futures on sovereign debt and equity securities, within existing regulatory limits, allowing their maintenance until maturity and considering any resulting excesses as non-imputable; Whereas the execution of these measures must be carried out in strict compliance with Article 21-B of the SPP Law, which regulates the fiduciary responsibility of AFPs, establishing their obligation to administer pension funds always attending to members' interests; Whereas, additionally, in accordance with Article 59 of the SPP Law Regulations, AFPs must manage funds with diligence, competence, impartiality, prudence, and honesty, maintaining an adequate balance between profitability and risk, diversifying investments, and respecting current regulations; With the approval of the Adjunct Superintendencies for Pensions, and Regulation and Legal Affairs, as well as the Risk Management and Economic Studies Departments; and, In exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 7 of Article 349 of the General Law of the Financial and Insurance System and Organic Law of the Banking and Securities Superintendency, Law No. 26702 and its amendments, in Article 57 of the SPP Law, and based on what is provided in the Thirty-Second Final and Complementary Provision of the General Law;
RESOLVES: Article One. – Incorporate the forty-first transitional provision of Title VI of the Compendium of Regulatory Supervision Norms for the Private Pension Fund Administration System, approved via SBS Resolution No. 052-98-EF/SAFP, regarding Investments, according to the following text: “Forty-first. Extraordinary measures due to extraordinary and optional withdrawals - Law 32445. The AFP is granted the authority to implement the following provisions: a) Extraordinary transfer of local equity instruments. The AFP may carry out the transfer of the category of local equity instruments (shares) from type 3 fund (source fund) to type 1 fund, type 2 fund, or both (destination funds), complying with the following:
Article Two. - This resolution takes effect from the day following its publication in the Official Gazette El Peruano.
Registered, communicated, and published SERGIO JAVIER ESPINOSA CHIROQUE Superintendent of Banking, Insurance and AFP