September 03, 2007 01:00 AM

Sovereign funds in the P&I/Watson Wyatt World 300

Sovereign funds in the P&I/Watson Wyatt World 300
Funds established by federal governments to help meet the expected retirement boom. Assets are in U.S. millions as of Dec. 31, 2006.
Rank	Fund	Country	Assets
1	Government Pension Investment	Japan	$935,569
2	Government Pension	Norway	$285,625
3	National Pension	Korea	$203,232
4	GEPF ¹	South Africa	$177,559
5	Postal Savings Fund ²	Taiwan	$128,194
6	Canada Pension³	Canada	$100,738
7	Employees Provident Fund	Malaysia	$82,256
8	Central Provident Fund	Singapore	$70,468
9	Fondo de Reserva Seguridad	Spain	$47,179
10	FRR	France	$41,258
11	National Social Security	China	$36,195
12	Employees' Provident¹	India	$31,581
13	AP Fonden 2	Sweden	$31,187
14	AP Fonden 3	Sweden	$31,097
15	AP Fonden 1	Sweden	$29,995
16	AP Fonden 4	Sweden	$29,177
17	Local Government Pensions	Finland	$28,952
18	National Pensions Reserve Fund	Ireland	$24,853
19	Future Fund	Australia	$14,318
20	AP Fonden 7	Sweden	$11,912
21	New Zealand Superannuation⁴	NZ	$9,688
22	Government Pension Fund⁴	Thailand	$9,201
Notes: 1: Estimate; 2: As of April 30; 3: As of March 31; 4: As of May 31.