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pen·sion fund

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pension fund, superannuation fundnoun

    a fund reserved to pay workers' pensions when they retire from service

  2. pension fundnoun

    a financial institution that collects regular contributions from employers to provide retirement income for employees

Wiktionary

  1. pension fundnoun

    A pool of assets forming an independent legal entity that are bought with the contributions to a pension plan for the exclusive purpose of financing pension plan benefits.

Wikipedia

  1. Pension fund

    A pension fund, also known as a superannuation fund in some countries, is any plan, fund, or scheme which provides retirement income. Pension funds typically have large amounts of money to invest and are the major investors in listed and private companies. They are especially important to the stock market where large institutional investors dominate. The largest 300 pension funds collectively hold about $6 trillion in assets. In January 2008, The Economist reported that Morgan Stanley estimates that pension funds worldwide hold over US$20 trillion in assets, the largest for any category of investor ahead of mutual funds, insurance companies, currency reserves, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, or private equity.The Federal Old-age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund is the world's largest public pension fund which oversees $2.743 trillion USD in assets.

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  1. pension fund

    A pension fund is a type of investment fund established by an employer, union, or other organization that collects, manages, and invests money on behalf of employees or members for their retirement. The funds are typically sourced from contributions made by both the employers and the employees. Upon retirement, members can withdraw their share from the pension fund as a lump sum, or receive periodic payouts.

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  1. Pension fund

    A pension fund is any plan, fund, or scheme which provides retirement income. Pension funds are important to shareholders of listed and private companies. They are especially important to the stock market where large institutional investors dominate. The largest 300 pension funds collectively hold about $6 trillion in assets. In January 2008, The Economist reported that Morgan Stanley estimates that pension funds worldwide hold over US$20 trillion in assets, the largest for any category of investor ahead of mutual funds, insurance companies, currency reserves, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, or private equity. Although the Government Pension Investment Fund lost 0.25 percent, in the year ended March 31, 2011 GPIF was still the world's largest public pension fund which oversees 114 trillion Yen.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pension fund in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pension fund in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of pension fund in a Sentence

  1. Yu Guoxiang:

    Some investors are buying blue chips again after their recent falls, helping offset the downbeat mood from overseas markets, the prospect of pension fund entering the market also gives some psychological support.

  2. Shingo Kumazawa:

    The fact that the amount that they bought is big means that a big pension fund could have bought Japanese shares, it's possible to think that the GPIF (Government Pension Investment Fund) was buying after it announced its portfolio change on Oct. 31.

  3. Charles Tan:

    In the past few weeks, we have seen about three or four requests for proposals from large investors in Europe, particularly from France and Germany, we haven't seen much European pension fund interest in Charles Tan high-quality corporate bonds, basically since the crisis. That's why it is so unusual to see this many RFPs come in just a few weeks.

  4. Lefteris Saridakis:

    We're striking because our main pension fund, the oldest in Greece, will close.

  5. Gavin Parry:

    It could be that we're seeing some restraint now because of sentiment surrounding expectations for the yen as we move into next year, gPIF (a government pension fund) came out and said they are re-instating hedging, which has some people wondering whether they are expecting to take further hits from yen strength in the future. We're also seeing some of the big brokerages marking up their cost projections for the yen moving into next year.


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