OPTrust reports 2025 funded status and investment results

OPTrust released its 2025 Funded Status Report on March 11, 2026, reporting that the pension plan remained fully funded for the seventeenth consecutive year. The total portfolio earned a 4.2 per cent net investment return in 2025, while the ten-year average net return was 6.7 per cent and the annual average since inception was 7.8 per cent. The plan paid more than CAD1.4 billion in pension entitlements during the year. OPTrust stated that investment returns account for more than seventy per cent of retirement benefits. Its defined benefit plan, including OPTrust Select, served approximately 118,000 members. Joint trusteeship gives members and the Ontario government equal representation.