If anyone needed more evidence that last year was a good one for retirement assets, the latest Towers Watson peek at 13 countries around the world should leave no doubt.
The report found that total net pension assets rose 9.5 percent to about $32 trillion dollars, with 59 percent of the total in the U.S.
Pension funds around the world rode a wave of rising stock prices and interest rates in 2013. After the U.S., where assets rose 12 percent to $18.9 trillion, were Japan with 10.2 percent of assets, and the United Kingdom, with 10.1 percent.
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