Euro area pension fund statistics: first quarter of 2021
Total assets of euro area pension funds amounted to €3,105 billion in first quarter of 2021, €39 billion lower than in fourth quarter of 2020
Total pension entitlements of euro area pension funds dropped to €2,672 billion in first quarter of 2021, down €109 billion from fourth quarter of 2020
Total assets of euro area pension funds decreased to €3,105 billion in the first quarter of 2021, from €3,144 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Investment fund shares accounted for 48.2% of the pension funds sector’s total assets in the first quarter of 2021.
The second largest category of holdings was debt securities (24.7%), followed by equity (10.2%) (see respective transactions in Chart 1).
Holdings of investment fund sharesincreased to €1,497 billion at the end of the first quarter of 2021 from €1,470 billion at the end of the previous quarter. Net sales of investment fund shares amounted to €23 billion in the first quarter of 2021, while price and other changes amounted to €51 billion.
Looking at the main type of investment fund shares, equity fund shares totalled €484 billion, with net sales of €12 billion.
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