The growth in Poland's asset management sector has accelerated across all its segments, during 2016-2017H1. Assets of regulated investment funds reached PLN 272* billion, while reserves of insurance companies increased to PLN 148** billion, as of June 2017. At the same time, assets in the mandatory second pillar and in the voluntary third pillar III pension funds jumped to PLN 175 billion and PLN 21 billion respectively. As a consequence, the overall value of assets under management (AuM) in Poland topped PLN 632 billion or nearly EUR 150 billion in June 2017. Three largest firms: PZU, Aviva and NN managed AuM of over PLN 236 billion in total and their combined market share exceeded 40%.
Outlook
Assets under management in Poland are expected to experience solid growth in 2017 and to remain in an upward trend through 2019.
* Funds tracked by IZFiA
** Technical reserves of non-life and life insurers, including unit-linked life funds