For decades, Nigeria's pension funds were the 'sleeping giants' of the financial system - massive, slow-moving, and largely confined to the safe but unexciting world of government bonds. However, 2026 has marked a historic turning point. Now active market movers… With the National Pension Commission (PenCom) recently raising equity investment caps—allowing Fund I (Aggressive) to allocate up to 35percent and Fund II (Balanced) up to 33 percent, etc to ordinary shares—the industry’s N27.45 trillion asset base has been unlea
For decades, Nigeria's pension funds were the 'sleeping giants' of the financial system - massive, slow-moving, and largely confined to the safe but unexciting world of government bonds. However, 2026 has marked a historic turning point. Now active market movers… With the National Pension Commission (PenCom) recently raising equity investment caps—allowing Fund I (Aggressive) to allocate up to 35percent and Fund II (Balanced) up to 33 percent, etc to ordinary shares—the industry’s N27.45 trillion asset base has been unlea