Friday, November 11, 2011
[IWS] Towers Watson: THE WORLD'S 500 LARGEST ASSET MANAGERS--YEAR END 2010
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Towers Watson
The World’s 500 largest asset managers - Year end 2010
http://www.towerswatson.com/assets/pdf/5707/PI500-Analysis-YE2010.pdf
[full-text, 32 pages]
The P&I/Towers Watson global 500 ranking is prepared using joint research by Pensions & Investments and Towers Watson.
Highlights from this year’s report include:
Total assets of the world’s largest 300 pension funds grew by over 11% in 2010 (8% in 2009) to a record high of US$12.5 trillion and up by around US$1.2 trillion from last year’s figure.
Despite last year’s growth in total assets, annualised growth of all funds during the past five years has fallen to just over 6%.
By individual region, Europe has the highest five-year growth rate of 11% compared to Asia (9%) and North America (1%); while the Latin American and African regions combined have a growth rate for the same period of 15%, albeit from a low base.
The world’s top 300 pension funds now represent over 47% of global pension funds assets.
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