The market value of assets held by Canadian trusteed pension funds reached $2.5 trillion at the end of the first quarter 2025, representing an 8.7 per cent increase year over year, according to a new report from Statistics Canada.
It analyzed the top 250 trusteed pension plans, which equates to roughly 90 per cent of the total value of all trusteed pension assets. Since 2021, the feds have redesigned the survey to increase the number of pension funds covered quarterly.
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Out of the entire pool of assets, $960 billion was held in equities, split between $597 billion in public and $364 billion in private, $641 billion in bonds and $248 billion in infrastructure.
The report found total investment assets have grown from $2.4 trillion at the end of 2024 and $2.3 trillion during the same reporting period last year.
Equities, public and private, grew 10 per cent in value year-over-year followed by bonds (8.6 per cent), infrastructure (7.9 per cent) and real estate (0.42 per cent).
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