Global (excluding US) pension fund performance

US pension funds

 * Andonov, Aleksandar and Bauer, Rob and Cremers, Martijn, Can Large Pension Funds Beat the Market? Asset Allocation, Market Timing, Security Selection and the Limits of Liquidity (October 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1885536 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1885536


 * Andonov, Aleksandar and Eichholtz, Piet M. A. and Kok, Nils, Value Added From Investment Managers in Private Markets? An Examination of Pension Fund Investments in Real Estate (July 1, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1996819 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1996819


 * Bauer, Rob and Cremers, Martijn and Frehen, Rik, Pension Fund Performance and Costs: Small is Beautiful (April 30, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=965388 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.965388


 * Bauer, Rob, Frehen, Rik, Lum, Hubert and Otten, Roger, The Performance of US Pension Funds New Insights into the Agency Costs Debate (November 2008)


 * Coggin, T. Daniel, Fabozzi, Frank J., and Rahman, Shafiqur, The Investment Performance of U.S. Equity Pension Fund Managers: An Empirical Investigation, The Journal of Finance, Vol. 48, No. 3, Papers and Proceedings of the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting of the American Finance Association: Anaheim, California January 5-7, 1993 (July, 1993), pp. 1039-1055.


 * Dyck, I. J. Alexander and Pomorski, Lukasz, Is Bigger Better? Size and Performance in Pension Plan Management (June 1, 2011). Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 1690724. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1690724 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1690724


 * Dyck, I. J. Alexander and Lins, Karl V. and Pomorski, Lukasz, Does Active Management Pay? New International Evidence (November 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1957783 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1957783

UK pensions

 * Blake, David P. and Timmermann, Allan G. and Tonks, Ian and Wermers, Russ, Decentralized Investment Management: Evidence from the Pension Fund Industry (February 2010). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7679.


 * Clare, Andrew and Cuthbertson, Keith and Nitzsche, Dirk, An Empirical Investigation into the Performance of UK Pension Fund Managers (January 9, 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1325410 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1325410


 * Timmermann, Allan G. and Lehmann, Bruce N. and Blake, David P., Asset Allocation Dynamics and Pension Fund Performance. The Journal of Business, Vol. 72, No. 4, October 1999; Cass Business School Research Paper. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=171968

Canada pensions

 * Bouvatier, Vincent and Rigot, Sandra, Pension Funds' Allocations to Hedge Funds: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. and Canadian Defined Benefit Plans (September 25, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1916686 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1916686

Greece

 * Angelidis, Timotheos and Tessaromatis, Nikolaos, The Efficiency of Greek Public Pension Fund Portfolios (April, 24 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1394457 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1394457

Hungary and Poland

 * Bohl, Martin T. and Lischewski, Judith and Voronkova, Svitlana, Pension Funds' Performance in Strongly Regulated Industries in Central Europe: Evidence from Poland and Hungary (2010). ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 10-076. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1726402 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1726402 }}

Netherlands

 * Huang, Xiaohong and Mahieu, Ronald, Performance Persistence of Dutch Pension Funds (September 15, 2010). Netspar Discussion Paper No. 09/2010-038. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1720852 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1720852

Norway

 * Ang, Andrew, Goetzmann, William, and Schaefer, Stephen, Evaluation of Active Management of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund–Global (2011/8/25) Available at Google Scholar.


 * Chambers, David and Dimson, Elroy and Ilmanen, Antti S., The Norway Model (October 10, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1936806 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1936806

Spain

 * Andreu, Laura and Swinkels, Laurens A. P., Performance Evaluation of Balanced Pension Plans (October 1, 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1562466 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1562466


 * Saez, Juan Carlos Matallin and Martí, Carmen Pilar, Spanish Pension Plans Performance and Persistence (March 1, 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1100685 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1100685

Switzerland

 * Ammann, Manuel and Zingg, Andreas, Investment Performance of Swiss Pension Funds and Investment Foundations (January 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1091165 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1091165

Australia

 * Cummings, James Richard, Effect of Fund Size on the Performance of Australian Superannuation Funds (June 2013). Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Working Paper. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2030102 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2030102


 * Sy, Wilson N. and Liu, Kevin, Improving the Cost Efficiency of Australian Pension Management (Spring 2010). Rotman International Journal of Pension Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1618830 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1618830

Hong Kong

 * Chu, Patrick Kuok-Kun, A Study on Stock-Selection and Market-Timing Performance: Evidence from Hong Kong Mandatory Provident Funds (MPF) (July 16, 2007). 20th Australasian Finance & Banking Conference 2007 Paper. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1000821 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1000821

Turkey

 * Gokcen, Umut and Yalcin, Atakan, The Case Against Active Pension Funds: Evidence from the Turkish Private Pension System (December 26, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=237