{"id":55460,"date":"2016-09-06T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/note\/the-worlds-300-largest-pension-funds-year-ended-2015\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T01:02:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T00:02:56","slug":"the-worlds-300-largest-pension-funds-year-ended-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/note\/the-worlds-300-largest-pension-funds-year-ended-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s 300 largest pension funds \u2013 year ended 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <strong>Total assets of the world\u2019s largest 300 pension funds fell by over 3% in 2015 (compared to growth of over 3% in 2014) to a sum of US$14.8 trillion according to Pensions &#038; Investments and Willis Towers Watson research. Despite this first drop in assets since the beginning of the global financial crisis, cumulative asset growth since then is almost 19%.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The latest P&#038;I \/ Willis Towers Watson global 300 research, conducted in conjunction with Pensions &#038; Investments, a leading U.S. investment newspaper, shows that by individual region North America had the highest five-year compound growth rate of around 6% compared to Europe (around 4%) and Asia-Pacific (around 1%). The research also shows that the world\u2019s top 300 pension funds now represent around 42% of global pension assets. According to the research during 2015, only hybrid plan assets grew, by almost 14%, while all other fund types declined: defined benefit (DB) plans assets by almost 5%; defined contribution (DC) by over 2%; and reserve funds by 0.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Sovereign pension funds continue to feature strongly in the ranking with 27 of them accounting for 28% of assets and totalling around US$4.2 trillion. The 115 public-sector funds in the research had assets of almost US$6 trillion in 2015 and account for 39% of the total. Private-sector industry funds (58) and corporate funds (100) account for 14% and 19%, respectively, of assets in the research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.next-finance.net\/http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/share_of_pension_assets_by_country.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter size-full wp-image-55458\" src=\"IMG\/jpg\/share_of_pension_assets_by_country.jpg\" alt=\"share_of_pension_assets_by_country.jpg\" align=\"center\" width=\"878\" height=\"613\" \/><\/a><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-55460 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-herald-lay-c1'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"herald-popup\" href='http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/share_of_pension_assets_by_country.jpg'><img width=\"470\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/share_of_pension_assets_by_country-470x313.jpg\" class=\"attachment-herald-lay-c1 size-herald-lay-c1\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/share_of_pension_assets_by_country-470x313.jpg 470w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/share_of_pension_assets_by_country-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/share_of_pension_assets_by_country-414x276.jpg 414w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/share_of_pension_assets_by_country-640x426.jpg 640w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/share_of_pension_assets_by_country-130x86.jpg 130w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/share_of_pension_assets_by_country-187x124.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total assets of the world\u2019s largest 300 pension funds fell by over 3% in 2015 (compared to growth of over 3% in 2014) to a sum of US$14.8 trillion according to Pensions &#038; Investments and Willis Towers Watson research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":55458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1481],"tags":[1655,1651,1437,1724,2091,2016],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55460"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55461,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55460\/revisions\/55461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}