Key Takeaways
- • Pensions & Investments' 2026 Largest Money Managers ranking, the 53rd annual edition, ranks managers by total worldwide institutional assets under management.
- • Vanguard Group leads the ranking at $8,783,438 million, followed by BlackRock at $7,271,654 million and State Street Investment Management in third place.
- • Fidelity Investments, State Street Investment Management, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs round out the top tier, with Fidelity at $5.52 trillion and State Street at $4.72 trillion according to supplemental listings.
- • Fisher Investments states it was included on the Pensions & Investments list of the world's 500 largest money managers.
Summary
Pensions & Investments has published its 2026 Largest Money Managers ranking, the 53rd year the publication has profiled the largest managers of institutional assets. The ranking measures managers by total worldwide institutional assets under management, according to the publisher's listing.
The publication's ranking places Vanguard Group first with $8,783,438 million in institutional AUM, followed by BlackRock at $7,271,654 million and State Street Investment Management in third. Supplemental listings from third-party aggregators show Fidelity Investments at approximately $5.52 trillion and State Street Investment Management at $4.72 trillion, with J.P. Morgan Chase at $4.05 trillion and Goldman Sachs also in the top ten. These third-party figures differ from the publisher's institutional-only methodology and should be read as total-AUM approximations rather than direct comparisons.
Pensions & Investments' ranking is part of a broader family of annual reports, including its Top 500 Asset Managers report and its Thinking Ahead Institute Pensions & Investments 300 study of the world's largest pension funds. Fisher Investments has publicly noted its inclusion on the list of the world's 500 largest money managers for 2026.
The full ranking detail was not retrievable from the source, so this summary reflects the publisher's headline figures and listing snippets only.
The publication's ranking places Vanguard Group first with $8,783,438 million in institutional AUM, followed by BlackRock at $7,271,654 million and State Street Investment Management in third. Supplemental listings from third-party aggregators show Fidelity Investments at approximately $5.52 trillion and State Street Investment Management at $4.72 trillion, with J.P. Morgan Chase at $4.05 trillion and Goldman Sachs also in the top ten. These third-party figures differ from the publisher's institutional-only methodology and should be read as total-AUM approximations rather than direct comparisons.
Pensions & Investments' ranking is part of a broader family of annual reports, including its Top 500 Asset Managers report and its Thinking Ahead Institute Pensions & Investments 300 study of the world's largest pension funds. Fisher Investments has publicly noted its inclusion on the list of the world's 500 largest money managers for 2026.
The full ranking detail was not retrievable from the source, so this summary reflects the publisher's headline figures and listing snippets only.
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