Federal Reserve Statistical Release, Z.1,
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Release Date: September 18, 2015
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F.117 Private and Public Pension Funds 1

Billions of dollars; quarterly figures are seasonally adjusted annual rates


Description
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Pension funds; consumption of fixed capital, nonresidential structures, equipment, and intellectual property products, current cost basis (gross saving) 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 1
Pension funds; gross fixed investment, nonresidential structures, equipment, and intellectual property products 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 2
Pension funds; total financial assets 570.4 577.8 455.9 503.3 463.2 446.3 458.0 427.9 468.8 428.0 452.3 3
Pension funds; checkable deposits and currency; asset -3.2 2.6 6.0 -1.7 -0.5 1.2 6.2 0.3 -1.9 3.0 -1.1 4
Pension funds; total time and savings deposits; asset 3.1 4.4 3.5 -7.0 7.4 4.6 5.3 3.0 5.4 15.3 11.1 5
Pension funds; money market mutual fund shares; asset -13.5 -8.1 17.2 -20.8 16.0 -3.8 0.5 -1.0 0.7 11.0 6.7 6
Pension funds; security repurchase agreements; asset -0.0 0.1 0.1 -0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.3 0.7 1.5 1.0 7
Pension funds; debt securities; asset -5.7 220.7 181.2 200.3 284.7 153.5 137.7 211.8 110.9 -368.4 -422.5 8
Pension funds; commercial paper; asset 0.1 2.1 4.3 -8.5 8.9 5.9 4.6 5.5 3.8 23.3 14.0 9
Pension funds; Treasury securities; asset 122.8 118.1 144.3 129.3 119.7 87.1 79.6 100.6 59.9 -345.0 -459.8 10
Pension funds; agency- and GSE-backed securities; asset -11.8 9.4 -35.9 -21.7 -4.7 -15.7 1.9 -20.9 -27.2 -39.8 -19.3 11
State and local government employee defined benefit retirement funds; municipal securities; asset 0.1 0.8 -0.6 0.2 1.3 1.1 -0.0 1.4 3.1 -6.0 5.8 12
Pension funds; corporate and foreign bonds; asset -116.9 90.3 69.2 101.0 159.7 75.1 51.6 125.2 71.4 -0.9 36.8 13
Pension funds; total mortgages; asset -5.1 2.5 -5.2 0.2 -1.2 -0.1 3.6 0.8 -3.2 -11.8 -1.6 14
Pension funds; corporate equities; asset -80.7 -44.0 -139.6 -100.3 -354.2 -186.0 -314.5 -84.0 -126.2 130.1 -53.7 15
Pension funds; mutual fund shares; asset 161.3 104.9 15.0 62.8 139.7 123.7 110.9 99.8 150.1 67.9 104.0 16
Pension funds; total miscellaneous assets 514.2 294.7 377.6 370.4 370.7 352.7 507.7 197.0 332.3 579.1 808.3 17
Pension funds; unallocated insurance contracts; asset 111.9 12.6 12.0 0.8 -11.4 8.3 27.5 -12.3 14.1 21.5 12.2 18
Private pension funds; pension fund contributions receivable; asset -8.6 15.4 3.0 -12.3 -2.5 -1.1 -0.9 1.5 -2.0 6.7 1.2 19
Pension funds; claims of pension fund on sponsor; asset 392.3 237.2 317.7 350.9 346.1 314.3 423.2 196.5 317.4 504.1 771.3 20
Pension funds; unidentified miscellaneous assets 18.6 29.6 45.0 30.9 38.5 31.1 57.9 11.3 2.8 46.8 23.7 21
Pension funds; total liabilities 570.3 577.7 455.9 503.5 463.5 446.6 458.3 428.3 469.1 428.3 452.6 22
Households and nonprofit organizations; retirement assets 683.2 836.5 903.8 816.4 741.2 758.6 865.0 874.7 581.9 734.9 705.0 23
Defined benefit pension funds; total financial assets 348.8 352.4 351.9 321.8 287.7 267.7 268.1 267.7 266.8 265.8 267.1 24
Defined contribution pension funds; total financial assets 221.5 225.3 104.1 181.5 175.5 178.6 189.9 160.2 202.0 162.2 185.2 25
All sectors; IRAs; liability 207.0 213.4 380.0 261.0 229.9 241.0 346.2 367.5 26.8 269.4 269.4 26
Life insurance companies; pension entitlements, excluding unallocated insurance contracts and IRAs; liability -94.1 45.3 67.8 52.1 48.1 71.2 60.9 79.3 86.4 37.5 -16.7 27

NOTES

  1. Private pension funds, state and local government employee retirement funds, and federal government employee retirement funds defined benefit plans and defined contribution plans.
  2. Includes claims on sponsor (i.e., unfunded pension entitlements).
  3. Includes both marketable and nonmarketable government securities.
  4. Assets of pension plans held at life insurance companies; series begins 1985:Q4.
  5. Unfunded defined benefit pension entitlements.
  6. Actuarial value of accrued pension entitlements in defined benefit plans and assets of defined contribution plans. These liabilities are assets of the household sector.
  7. Households' retirement assets in tax-deferred accounts, including employer sponsored pension plans, IRAs, Roth IRAs, and annuities.
  8. IRA assets are not included above. See memo item on table F.227 for a sectoral distribution of IRA accounts.
  9. Annuities held in IRAs at life insurance companies are excluded. They are included in line 26.
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