Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Financial Accounts of the United States - Z.1

L.119 Federal Government Employee Retirement Funds

2016:Q4 Release Date: March 9, 2017

Billions of dollars; amounts outstanding end of period, not seasonally adjusted


Description		 Series code 2014
2015
2016
2015
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Q4		 2016
Q1		 2016
Q2		 2016
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Federal government retirement funds; total financial assets(1) FL344090005 3656.1 3764.0 3894.4 3720.6 3764.0 3791.5 3821.4 3860.1 3894.4 1
Federal government retirement funds; debt securities; asset FL344022005 1631.2 1723.4 1822.6 1303.8 1723.4 1714.7 1718.7 1741.7 1822.6 2
Federal government retirement funds; Treasury securities; asset(2) FL343061105 1617.7 1708.9 1808.2 1289.3 1708.9 1700.2 1703.8 1726.5 1808.2 3
Federal government retirement funds; agency- and GSE-backed securities; asset FL343061705 5.9 6.1 6.2 6.0 6.1 6.1 6.3 6.6 6.2 4
Federal government retirement funds; corporate and foreign bonds; asset FL343063005 7.7 8.4 8.2 8.4 8.4 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.2 5
Federal government retirement funds; corporate equities; asset LM343064105 218.7 219.0 239.4 206.2 219.0 216.6 219.3 228.9 239.4 6
Federal government retirement funds; claims of pension fund on sponsor; asset(3) FL343073005 1806.2 1821.7 1832.4 2210.6 1821.7 1860.2 1883.5 1889.5 1832.4 7
Federal government retirement funds; total financial assets(4) FL344090005 3656.1 3764.0 3894.4 3720.6 3764.0 3791.5 3821.4 3860.1 3894.4 8
Federal government defined benefit retirement funds; total financial assets FL344090045 3244.2 3333.8 3427.8 3310.1 3333.8 3357.2 3380.7 3404.2 3427.8 9
Federal government defined benefit retirement funds; total funded assets(5) FL342000075 1438.0 1512.1 1595.4 1299.4 1512.1 1497.0 1497.2 1514.7 1595.4 10
Federal government defined benefit retirement funds; claims of pension funds on sponsor; asset FL343073045 1806.2 1821.7 1832.4 2010.7 1821.7 1860.2 1883.5 1889.5 1832.4 11
Federal government defined benefit retirement funds; total financial assets FL344090045 3244.2 3333.8 3427.8 3310.1 3333.8 3357.2 3380.7 3404.2 3427.8 12
Federal government defined contribution retirement funds; total financial assets FL344090055 411.9 430.2 466.6 410.5 430.2 434.3 440.7 455.9 466.6 13

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NOTES

  1. Includes claims on sponsor (i.e., unfunded pension entitlements).
  2. Includes marketable and nonmarketable Treasury securities.
  3. Unfunded defined benefit pension entitlements and suspended investments in the Thrift Savings Plan G Fund by the Treasury. Negative values indicate overfunding.
  4. Actuarial value of accrued pension entitlements in defined benefit plans and assets of defined contribution plans, including suspended investments in the Thrift Savings Plan G Fund. These liabilities are assets of the household sector.
  5. Total defined benefit financial assets less defined benefit claims of pension fund on sponsor.
  6. Additional detail on defined benefit plans and defined contribution plans is available on tables L.119.b and L.119.c.
Last update: March 9, 2017