Climate risk exposure and resilience varies significantly among pension funds within and across five of the six largest pension systems worldwide: Canada, The Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (US).
Ortec Finance’s ‘Climate risks facing the pension industry worldwide’ conducts a comparative analysis of the top 30 pension funds by assets under management in these regions by quantifying the annual, cumulative, and cumulative annualized impacts of their portfolios at the asset class level, using the 2024 Ortec Finance Climate Scenarios.
Discover how and why our analysis shows:
- North American pension funds face the greatest climate risk exposure
- UK pension funds show diverse outcomes and relative resilience to climate risks
- Swiss and Dutch pension funds display greater stability towards both physical and transition risks
Download the report – Climate risks facing the pension industry worldwide
This cross-regional and comparative study that utilizes a top-down climate scenario analysis approach has been undertaken with ClimateMAPS - Ortec Finance’s climate scenario analysis solution.
2025 climate risk report now available
A further update to this analysis, undertaken as part of our 2025 climate scenario release is now available: Translating the cost of climate change for the global pension industry: 2025 update.
Download 2025 report Climate Scenarios & Sustainability
Contact
Doruk Önal
Climate Risk Consultant
Maurits van Joolingen
Managing Director, Climate Scenarios & SustainabilityRelated Insights
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