The divergent opinion on the determinants of the financial performance of pension funds administrators has been an ongoing issue. Academic scholars overtime have been groping with what factors drive the financial performance of pension funds administrators which still remains unestablished. Hence, this study determines the effect of firm characteristics on the financial performance of pension funds administrators in Nigeria. The study employed correlational research design while the population of the study is the 20 registered and licensed Pension Funds Administrators in Nigeria and a sample of eleven (11) PFAs were conveniently selected after filter was applied. A multiple regression was adopted as a technique of data analysis of the study. The findings reveal that firm size is statistically insignificant in influencing the performance of PFAs, while firm growth, institutional shareholding, managerial shareholding and leverage have significant negative impact on the performance of PFAs. The

study recommended among others that, the Management of PFAs should increase their net assets in order to expand their size and improve performance. Again, as more levered PFAs tend to have better performance, their Management should use less equity financing and increase debt to improve their performance.