The evaluation of pension funds in the world

This item provides an overview and initial analysis of the data collected by the OECD on the aggregate. investment performance of pension systems in the 23 countries - Latin and North America, CEE, Western Europe and Asia and Pacific, for which meaningful data series were available. It begins with a description of privately managed pension funds that are contained in the database. The item describes the types of pension funds and the regulatory environment in which they operate and compares the various pension systems according to the total assets under management and the allocation of investments among fixed-income and equity instruments. This is followed by a brief discussion of the challenges and limitations imposed by the way in which the data are reported by different countries and tabulations of the reported returns and standard deviations.