Pension funds are the largest nonbank institutional investor in the country.
Recognizing the growing national interest in pensions and the U.S. pension system as a whole, EBRI and the Federal Reserve System are cooperating in a joint, ongoing project with the Trust Universe Comparison Service to develop reliable data on financial assets in the private and public pension systems. PIR contains data on qualified private trusteed, qualified private life insurance, and state and local government pension funds. The report is divided into two parts containing five sections. Part I contains annual data beginning with year-end 1985 supplemented by quarterly data on the latest five quarters regarding private trusteed pension funds. This part is divided into three sections.