Pension Funds
What Is a Pension Fund?
A clear, sourced definition of a pension fund: what it is, how defined-benefit and defined-contribution plans differ, how pension funds invest to meet liabilities, and who the largest are.
Universal Asset Owners
Briefings, research, charts and analysis on the institutions, capital flows and systemic risks shaping long-horizon portfolios.
Family Offices
What Is a Family Office?
What a family office actually does, how large the sector has become, and why the biggest now allocate capital like sovereign and pension funds.
Institutional Investing
Research & Intelligence for Long-Term Capital
An overview of Universal Asset Owners' research and intelligence — reports, rankings, fund profiles, and explainers built for institutional allocators and the firms that serve them, with sponsorship and partnership options.
Institutional Investing
Sponsor Research, Podcasts & Events for Asset Owners
Sponsorship opportunities with Universal Asset Owners: underwrite research, sponsor the podcast or newsletter, and partner on roundtables and events that reach the institutions allocating the world's long-term capital.
Institutional Investing
Media Kit: Reach the World's Largest Asset Owners
The Universal Asset Owners media kit: who our audience is, the sponsorship and partnership formats available across newsletter, research, podcast, and events, and how to reach the institutions that allocate the world's long-term capital.
Institutional Investing
Asset Owner Rankings: Sovereign Funds & Pensions
Universal Asset Owners' library of sourced, dated league tables — the largest sovereign wealth funds, the largest pension funds, and more — each with transparent methodology and the caveats serious rankings require.
Institutional Investing
Asset Owner Profiles: Sovereign Funds & Pensions
A growing library of sourced, dated profiles of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds and pension funds — what they are, how big they are, how they are governed, and how they invest.
Pension Funds
CPP Investments: Profile, Strategy & Assets
A sourced, dated profile of CPP Investments, which manages the Canada Pension Plan fund: its assets, mandate, independent governance, and globally diversified, in-house direct-investing strategy — the flagship of the Canadian pension model.