Top 100 Largest Corporate Pension Rankings by Total Assets (2024)

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The Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan (GPIF) remains the largest pension fund, and tops the table with assets of 1.4 trillion dollars. It has held the top spot since 2002. Meanwhile, the Employees' Provident Fund of India joins as the only new participant among the top 20 funds of 2022.

In a bold step tailored to meet the existential challenges and colossal financial risks of a warming climate and harness the massive opportunities of the shift to a new clean economy, California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest public pension fund in the U.S. managing $446 billion, announced plans to ...

Established in 1951, EPF is the 12th largest pension fund in the world with 15.72 million members and total assets of about 1 trillion ringgit, its 2022 annual report said.

The Netherlands is top of the class when it comes to comparing pension systems around the world, according to a recent global pensions report from the Mercer CFA Institute. The ranking looked at more than 50 indicators and compared 47 retirement income systems, covering 64% of the world's population.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023 (December 31st), aggregate public pension assets were $5.99 trillion, an increase of 7.9 percent from the $5.56 trillion reported for the prior quarter. This value is higher than the same quarter one year ago by some $438 billion, or 10.5 percent.

CalSTRS, the California State Teachers' Retirement System, is the largest teachers' retirement system and second largest public pension fund in the nation.

The average monthly retirement income adjusted for inflation in 2023 is $4,381.25, according to a 2022 U.S. Census Bureau report. The average annual income for adults 65 and older in 2023 is $75,254 – or $83,085 when adjusted for inflation.

The so-called Government Pension Fund Global, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, said it had a value of 17.7 trillion kroner ($1.6 trillion) at the end of the March.

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The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) of Japan, the world's largest pension fund by assets under management on several different rankings, said it is looking for “basic information” on illiquid assets other than those in which it already invests.

Sweden's largest pension fund, Alecta, is facing losses of almost $2 billion as a result of a failed investment strategy that made it one of the biggest shareholders in two collapsed US banks and another that is embroiled in the ongoing banking crisis.

Although the Netherlands, Austria, Luxembourg and Denmark are overall the best performers on social security, it does not mean that they are in the top four on each indicator. As for poverty issues, Luxembourg performs well, with just 5% of the population living below the poverty line in 2011 (Figure 1).

CalPERS is the nation's largest public pension fund with investments in both domestic and international markets.

Until relatively recently, pensions funds invested primarily in stocks and bonds, often using a liability-matching strategy. Today, they increasingly invest in a variety of asset classes including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and securities like gold that can hedge inflation.

The California State Teachers' Retirement System was established by law in 1913 to provide retirement benefits to California's public school educators from prekindergarten through community college. Today, CalSTRS is the largest educator-only pension fund in the world, and the second largest pension fund in the U.S.