What holds more than one half of the assets and funds in the world’s largest asset owners? Not a government or even a collection of them, nor a corporation — that distinction belongs to pension funds.
According to Willis Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Institute, approximately 61% of the assets held by the biggest 100 asset owners in the world are held by pension funds; 67% of their funds are. That amounts to an estimated $19 trillion in assets.
The 10 largest pension funds, Willis Towers Watson reports, include two pension funds from the United States — the Federal Retirement Thrift, which is #5, and the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), at #7.
And among the top 100 global asset owners, 31 were pension funds from U.S. entities. Many were public-sector pension plans, but this also included private-sector pension funds. The largest is Boeing, at $121.717 billion. The U.S. private-sector pension funds in the ranking included:
| Pension Fund | Assets | Global Ranking Among Asset Holders |
| Boeing | $121,171,000,000 | 40 |
| AT&T | $113,582,000,000 | 42 |
| IBM | $103,676,000,000 | 51 |
| General Motors | $96,284,000,000 | 57 |
| General Electric | $78,839,000,000 | 68 |
| Lockheed Martin | $71,001,000,000 | 80 |
| Ford Motor Corporation | $59,813,00,000 | 98 |
| United Parcel Service | $59,560,000,000 | 99 |
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