September 2026

Bumper growth for world’s largest pension funds as UK market contracts

The UK was one of only two major pension markets to record a decline in assets over the past five years, according to new research. This retrenchment comes as the world’s largest 300 pension funds saw their assets jump 13.4 per cent during 2025, to a record $27.7 trillion (£20.7 trillion). This is the fastest annual growth for the world’s largest schemes since 2017. The figures also show that the world largest pension fund, Norway’s Government Pension Fund, became the first...

Top 300 pension funds’ AuM reaches record high

The world’s top 300 pension funds experienced the fastest growth in assets since 2017, according to the latest report from the Thinking Ahead Institute. The report found that assets under management grew by 13.4% in 2025, reaching a record-high of $27.7 trillion. The growth was most pronounced among the largest of these 300 pension funds, supporting the notion that the largest funds are getting larger. For example, the Government Pension Fund of Norway surpassed $2 trillion in AuM for the first time,...