Figure 1 - Growth of Employer sponsored Pension Funds in Canada, by Total Assets (at Market Value), 1965-92 and 1992-97

Statistics Canada - Trusted Pension Funds

• 1965, $6,700,000,000
• 1970, $10,600,000,000
• 1975, $19,800,000,000
• 1980, %54,000,000,000
• 1985, $125,300,000,000
• 1990, $204,000,000,000
• 1992, $252,600,000,000
• 1994, $311,500,000,000
• 1996, $419,000,000,000
• 1997, $468,000,000,000

Benefits Canada - Top 100 Pension Funds

• 1992, $223,600,000,000
• 1994, $265,400,000,000
• 1996, $350,700,000,000
• 1997, $397,500,000,000

Sources: Statistics Canada, Trusted Pension Funds, 1965-1996: Quartely Estimates of Trusted Pension Funds (4^th Quarter, 1997), 1998; Benefits Canada, "The Top 100 Pensions Funds", April editions 1993-1998.

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