Strong coverage of the European institutional market
Exelerating has a database focussing on the institutional market, using publicly available information. All information from these publicly available sources such as annual reports, investment plans, sustainability reports, and also interviews, news articles and online content is stored. We have developed a system that checks the entire public domain every week for new information.
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Our database
Markets we cover
Netherlands
The Dutch institutional market
The Dutch pension market is one of the largest pension markets in Europe, with invested assets of 1,400 billion euro. These pension assets are largely supported by 150 active pension funds, with the largest 10 pension funds managing 70%. But also, by smaller pension vehicles like APF’s (algemene pensioenfondsen) and PPI’s (premiepensioeninstellingen) – commercial pension entities owned by insurance companies. In addition, the assets of all Dutch insurance companies are covered.
Netherlands
100%
Pension funds
Est. Market covered
€1,455b
# Asset Owners
146
Netherlands
100%
APFs
Est. Market covered
€27b
# Asset Owners
5
Netherlands
100%
Insurance Companies
Est. Market covered
€402b
# Asset Owners
159
Netherlands
100%
PPIs
Est. Market covered
€21b
# Asset Owners
7
United Kingdom
The British institutional market
The British pension market is the largest in Europe with a total of 3,800 billion euros of assets under management. These assets are largely managed by pension funds, investment pooling companies and DC Master Trusts. A distinction can be made between public pension funds such as the 86 Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and private pension funds. The UK has both DB and DC schemes, but also hybrid schemes.
United Kingdom
100% > £ 1 bln
Pension funds
Est. Market covered
£ 1,558 bln
# Asset Owners
495
United Kingdom
100%
DC master trusts
# Entities covered
26
United Kingdom
100%
Investment pooling companies
Est. Market covered
£ 259 bln
# Asset Owners
8
Germany
The German institutional market
The German pension market is a large pension market, but assets are spread across many different pension vehicles. In addition to insurers, there are pension funds, insurance companies and trusts (CTA).
The German pension system has both DC schemes, mainly found with insurers, and DB schemes, which are implemented by pension funds.
Germany
95%
Pension funds
Est. Market covered
€ 819 bln
# Asset Owners
423
Germany
95%
Insurance Companies
Est. Market covered
€ 2,042 bln
# Asset Owners
361
Switzerland
The Swiss institutional market
The Swiss pension market is one of the largest in Europe with 1,140 billion euro in assets under management. In total there are approximately 1350 pension funds, although a significant number of them are very small. The Swiss market is characterized by relatively many medium-sized and small pension funds, i.e. funds with assets between CHF 20 billion and CHF 1 billion. 70% of the pension assets are managed by the top 100 pension funds.
Switzerland
95%
Pension funds
Est. Market covered
€ 813 bln
# Asset Owners
225
Austria
The Austrian institutional market
The Austrian pension market, part of the DACH region, is like Belgium a relatively small market. In total there are 11 pensionfunds with a total of 25 billion euro in assets under management. A characteristic of this market is that pension funds have their own administration. These pension funds also make limited use of external investment advisors or fiduciary managers.
Austria
100%
Pension funds
Est. Market covered
€ 29 bln
# Asset Owners
11
Denmark
The Danish institutional market
The Danish pension market is the second largest pension market, in terms of assets under management, in the Nordics after Norway. These pension funds have more than 600 billion euros in assets under management. The Exelerating database has full coverage of all pensionfunds, in total 26.
Denmark
100%
Pension funds
Est. Market covered
€ 503 bln
# Asset Owners
24
Finland
The Finnish institutional market
The Finnish pension market has 25 pension funds managing a total of 292 billion euro in assets under management. Finland has multiple types of pension funds: public-sector pension providers, pension insurance companies, company pension funds, special pension provider and industry-wide pension funds. The 4 pension insurance companies manage almost two-thirds of all Finnish pension assets.
Finland
100%
Pension funds
Est. Market covered
€ 239 bln
# Asset Owners
25
Norway
The Norwegian institutional market
The Norwegian pension market is by far the largest of the Nordics in terms of both the number of pension funds and pension assets. This has everything to do with the presence of the Norway Government Pension Fund Global. This pension fund has a total of 1,300 billion euro in assets under management. The remaining 46 funds have approximately 110 billion euro in assets.
Norway
95%
Pension funds
Est. Market covered
€ 1,428 bln
# Asset Owners
47
Sweden
The Swedish institutional market
The Swedish pension market is the ‘third’ market in the Nordics in terms of asset under management. These assets, 575 billion euro are funded by 36 pension funds. Sweden has three types of pension funds: occupational pension providers, public funds and pension funds. Almost half of Swedish pension assets are supported by 6 public pension funds, the so-called AP funds.
Sweden
90%
Pension funds
Est. Market covered
€ 533 bln
# Asset Owners
36
Iceland
The Icelandic institutional market
With less than 400,000 inhabitants, it will come as no surprise that the Icelandic pension market is the smallest in the Nordics in terms of assets under management. Yet there are 21 pension funds that manage a total of 46 billion euro in assets.
Iceland
95%
Pension funds
Est. Market covered
€ 43 bln
# Asset Owners
21
Belgium
The Belgian institutional market
The Belgian pension market is the smallest market after Austria in terms of assets under management in the Exelerating database. Belgium has 28 pension funds with a total of more than 28 billion in assets under management.
Belgium
100%
Pension funds
Est. Market covered
€ 29 bln
# Asset Owners
28
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