Furthermore, as institutional investors with a significant portfolio in securities, insurance corporations and pension funds will be monitored for monetary policy and financial stability purposes. In view of the desirable further development of these statistics, we have started a close cooperation with the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA).
This should help to further improve the statistics, while minimising the costs for the industry through the compilation of aggregated data based on supervisory returns. Third, the improved interest rate statistics allow a deeper analysis of the transmission channels of monetary policy.