L.117 Private and Public Pension Funds (1)
Billions of dollars; amounts outstanding end of period, not seasonally adjusted

Description Series code 2014 2015 2016 2017 2017 Q1 2017 Q2 2017 Q3 2017 Q4 2018 Q1 Line
Pension funds; total financial assets (2) FL594090005 17598.3 17855.9 18645.9 19881.2 19000 19245.4 19529.5 19881.2 19930 1
Pension funds; checkable deposits and currency; asset FL593020005 55.3 59.5 72.6 69 71.9 71.6 73.9 69 67.9 2
Pension funds; total time and savings deposits; asset FL593030005 38.6 33.4 32.9 31.4 32.4 32.3 32.1 31.4 31.2 3
Pension funds; money market fund shares; asset FL593034005 210.7 206.8 219.7 210 217 215.6 217.8 210 208.2 4
Pension funds; security repurchase agreements; asset FL592051005 6.8 6.5 7.6 6.8 7.4 7.3 7.5 6.8 6.7 5
Pension funds; debt securities; asset LM594022005 3764.2 3785.8 3963.2 4046.6 3856.5 3796.5 4085.4 4046.6 4184.7 6
Pension funds; commercial paper; asset FL593069105 87.7 83.4 96.1 88 94.1 93.3 95.2 88 86 7
Pension funds; Treasury securities; asset (3) LM593061105 2128.8 2176.2 2297.1 2263.8 2159.8 2073 2332.3 2263.8 2430.1 8
Pension funds; agency- and GSE-backed securities; asset LM593061705 289.2 267.2 287.2 316.8 293.3 304.5 306.8 316.8 319.7 9
Pension funds; municipal securities; asset LM593062045 2.5 2.5 2 3.3 2.4 2.6 2.3 3.3 3.5 10
Pension funds; corporate and foreign bonds; asset LM593063005 1256 1256.5 1280.8 1374.6 1306.9 1323.1 1348.9 1374.6 1345.2 11
Pension funds; total mortgages; asset FL593065005 32.3 30.4 30.1 29.4 29.4 30.8 30.8 29.4 29.2 12
Pension funds; corporate equities; asset LM593064105 4810.4 4678.7 4912.1 5597.9 5092.3 5212.8 5381 5597.9 5474 13
Pension funds; mutual fund shares; asset LM593064205 3623.7 3532.3 3740.3 4302.8 3928.3 4045.9 4160.3 4302.8 4275 14
Pension funds; total miscellaneous assets FL593090005 5056.3 5522.6 5667.4 5587.4 5764.8 5832.6 5540.7 5587.4 5653.2 15
Pension funds; unallocated insurance contracts; asset (4) FL593095005 672.3 645.5 655.4 699.1 665.8 674.6 686.3 699.1 694.1 16
Private pension funds; pension fund contributions receivable; asset FL573074005 76.1 90.8 96.3 102.8 98.5 98.9 100.4 102.8 103.8 17
Pension funds; claims of pension fund on sponsor; asset (5) FL593073005 3480 3972.5 4035.4 3857.7 4105.6 4159.8 3845.5 3857.7 3920 18
Pension funds; unidentified miscellaneous assets FL593093005 827.9 813.9 880.3 927.8 894.9 899.3 908.5 927.8 935.3 19
Pension funds; total liabilities (6) FL594190005 17790.5 18033.5 18821 20072.4 19179.5 19428.6 19716.5 20072.4 20122.6 20
Defined benefit pension funds; pension entitlements (total liabilities) FL594190045 11621.6 11990.5 12354.5 12722.1 12446.7 12538.4 12630.3 12722.1 12813.3 21
Defined benefit pension funds; total funded assets (7) FL592000075 8141.7 8018 8319.1 9023 8448.7 8520 8796.8 9023 8899.9 22
Pension funds; defined benefit claims of pension fund on sponsor; asset FL593073045 3480 3972.5 4035.4 3699.1 3998 4018.4 3833.4 3699.1 3913.4 23
Households and nonprofit organizations; retirement assets (8) FL153050015 27345.3 27810 29307.5 31850.6 30041.4 30521 31096.4 31850.6 ND 24
Defined benefit pension funds; pension entitlements (total liabilities) FL594190045 11621.6 11990.5 12354.5 12722.1 12446.7 12538.4 12630.3 12722.1 12813.3 25
Defined contribution pension funds; total financial assets FL594090055 6168.9 6043 6466.5 7350.3 6732.8 6890.2 7086.2 7350.3 7309.2 26
All sectors; IRAs; liability (9) LM893131573 7292 7477 8080 9200 8400 8600 8850 9200 ND 27
Life insurance companies; pension entitlements, excluding unallocated insurance contracts and IRAs; liability (10) FL543150015 2262.8 2299.6 2406.5 2578.2 2461.8 2492.4 2529.9 2578.2 ND 28


NOTES

  1. Private pension funds, state and local government employee retirement funds, and federal government 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. Negative values indicate overfunding.
  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. Total defined benefit financial assets plus nonfinancial assets less claims of pension fund on sponsor.
  8. Households' retirement assets in tax-deferred accounts, including employer sponsored pension plans, IRAs, Roth IRAs, and annuities.
  9. IRA assets are not included above. See memo items on table L.227 for a sectoral distribution of IRA accounts.
  10. Annuities held in IRAs are excluded. They are included in line 27.
Last Update: June 7, 2018