OMERS

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Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System

Trade name	OMERS
Company type	Statutory corporation[1]
Industry	Pension fund
Founded	1962; 62 years ago (1962)
Headquarters	EY Tower 900-100 Adelaide Street West Toronto, Ontario M5H 0E2
Area served	Participating employers and employees in Ontario, Canada
Key people	Blake Hutcheson (CEO) George Cooke (Board chair, Administration Corporation) Michael Rolland (CEO, Sponsors Corporation) Frank Ramagnano (Board chair, Sponsors Corporation)
Net income	OMERS funded status on a smoothed basis was 97% in 2023
Total assets	C$128.6 billion (2023)[2]
Owner	The participating employers and employees of the OMERS pension plans
Number of employees	estimated 1000
Parent	OMERS Administration Corporation Board of Directors
Divisions	OMERS Infrastructure OMERS Capital Markets OMERS Private Equity Oxford Properties
Website	omers.com

The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System^[3] (OMERS) is a Canadian public pension fund, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. OMERS is a defined benefit, jointly sponsored, multi-employer public pension plan created in 1962 by Ontario provincial statute to administer retirement benefits and manage pension investment funds of local government employees in the Canadian province of Ontario. As of December 31, 2022^[update], OMERS had C$124 billion of assets under management.^[2] OMERS serves over 1,000 participating employers and more than half a million active, deferred and retired employees. OMERS members are employed by municipalities, school boards, transit systems, local electrical distribution companies, police service boards, fire fighting and paramedic services, children's aid societies and associated local agencies, boards and commissions.^[4]

In 2010, this fund assumed the pensions of firefighters, police officers, emergency physicians, employees of the Children's Aid Society, school employees other than teachers, public transport employees and Ontario Hydro employees.^[5]