Pension Fund Assets in Largest Markets Rise 11% in 2020

Link: https://www.ai-cio.com/news/pension-fund-assets-largest-markets-rise-11-2020/

Excerpt:

Pension fund assets within the world’s 22 largest markets saw double-digit gains for the second straight year in 2020, climbing 11% to $52.5 trillion, according to the 2021 “Global Pension Assets Study” from Willis Towers Watson’s Thinking Ahead Institute.

“In what was a highly tumultuous year, pension funds continued to grow strongly in 2020, underpinned by ongoing multi-decade themes such as the rotation from equities to alternatives and the growth of DC [defined contribution], now the dominant global pensions model,” Marisa Hall, co-head of the Thinking Ahead Institute, said in a statement.

Over the past five, 10, and 20 years, those assets have seen average annualized returns of 8.0%, 6.2%, and 6.1%, respectively, up from 5.3%, 6.5%, and 5.4%, respectively, over the same time periods last year.

Author(s): Michael Katz

Publication Date: 18 February 2021

Publication Site: ai-CIO