Data is foundational to any modern business – and especially critical for pension administrators. Yet, despite this truism, Canadian pension administrators have persistently low enterprise data maturity that creates a myriad of strategic, operational and member experience challenges. Delivering accurately on pension administration despite low data maturity – as Canadian pensions do – requires disproportionate effort. Organizations compensate through manual work, reconciliation, and repeated validation rather than relying on trusted, automated data processes. Administrators are increasingly aware of the need to improve data maturity, and this research seeks to support that goal. This report details the industry’s aspiration, the leading practices of exemplars in select domains, and our belief that getting governance and strategy right is the most impactful thing pension administrators can do to accelerate data maturity.