Pension Fund Pension: Over 150,000 Recipients

Around 152,000 people now receive a pension from a pension fund. Another approximately 950,000 people had commitments for a pension, so in total 1.1 million people are beneficiaries of one of the eight pension funds. In 2024, contributions to the pension funds totaled 1.7 billion euros, and payouts amounted to 1.36 billion euros, according to the FMA report 2025 on the state of the pension funds.

Assets Managed by Pension Funds Increased

The assets managed by the pension funds in Austria amounted to 27.5 billion euros or 6 percent of the gross domestic product at the end of 2024. By June 2025, it was already 28.5 billion euros. Only in two countries in the European Economic Area does the pension fund assets correspond to more than 10 percent of economic output: In the Netherlands, it is 167 percent, and in Sweden, 52 percent. In the Netherlands, the pension funds hold 1,729 billion euros - almost two-thirds of the total assets managed in the EEA area of 2,865 billion euros.

(APA/Red)

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