Federal Reserve Economic Data

Quarterly

L.116.g Life Insurance Companies: General Accounts


The Financial Accounts (formerly known as the Flow of Funds accounts) are a set of financial accounts used to track the sources and uses of funds by sector. They are a component of a system of macroeconomic accounts including the National Income and Product accounts (NIPA) and balance of payments accounts, all of which serve as a comprehensive set of information on the economy’s performance.(1) Some important inferences that can be drawn from the Financial accounts are the financial strength of a given sector, new economic trends, changes in the composition of wealth, and development of new financial instruments over time.(1)
Sectors are compiled into three categories: households, nonfinancial businesses, and banks. The sources of funds for a sector are its internal funds (savings from income after consumption) and external funds (loans from banks and other financial intermediaries). (1) Funds for a given sector are used for its investments in physical and financial assets. Dividing sources and uses of funds into two categories helps the staff of the Federal Reserve System pay particular attention to external sources of funds and financial uses of funds.(2) One example is whether households are borrowing more from banks—or in other words, whether household debt is rising. Another example might be whether banks are using more of their funds to provide loans to consumers. Transactions within a sector are not shown in the accounts; however, transactions between sectors are.(2) Monitoring the external flows of funds provides insights into a sector’s health and the performance of the economy as a whole.
Data for the Financial accounts are compiled from a large number of reports and publications, including regulatory reports such as those submitted by banks, tax filings, and surveys conducted by the Federal Reserve System.(2) The Financial accounts are published quarterly as a set of tables in the Federal Reserve’s Z.1 statistical release.
(1) Teplin, Albert M. “The U.S. Flow of Funds Accounts and Their Uses.” Federal Reserve Bulletin, July 2001; http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2001/0701lead.pdf.
(2) Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. “Guide to the Flow of Funds Accounts.” 2000, http://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/fof/.

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    Q4 1945    
 
 
    Q4 2024
Millions of Dollars
Line Name Period Value Preceding
Period
Year Ago
from Period
line 1
Total financial assets
Q4 2024 6,999,682 7,069,529 6,685,774
line 2
Checkable deposits and currency
Q4 2024 118,313 112,071 101,150
line 3
Money market fund shares
Q4 2024 69,121 67,616 66,466
line 4
Security repurchase agreements
Q4 2024 7,012 6,428 5,644
line 5
Debt securities
Q4 2024 3,579,242 3,695,162 3,464,792
line 6
Open market paper
. . . .
line 7
Treasury securities
Q4 2024 147,563 150,600 140,578
line 8
Agency- and GSE-backed securities
Q4 2024 194,503 194,855 188,527
line 9
Municipal securities
Q4 2024 167,912 167,985 177,536
line 10
Corporate and foreign bonds
Q4 2024 3,044,908 3,157,734 2,936,878
line 11
Loans
Q4 2024 1,000,605 974,353 923,775
line 12
Other loans and advances
Q4 2024 186,852 182,293 172,993
line 13
Mortgages
Q4 2024 813,753 792,060 750,782
line 14
Corporate equities
Q4 2024 147,817 142,105 129,927
line 15
Mutual fund shares
Q4 2024 8,582 8,102 7,273
line 16
Trade receivables
Q4 2024 158,872 152,956 144,714
line 17
Life insurance reserves
Q4 2024 330,365 330,537 324,906
line 18
Pension entitlements
Q4 2024 593,094 590,199 573,960
line 19
U.S. direct investment abroad
. . . .
line 20
Miscellaneous assets
Q4 2024 921,476 924,736 893,229
line 21
Total liabilities
Q4 2024 6,690,874 6,617,018 6,363,483
line 22
Security repurchase agreements
Q4 2024 45,567 41,098 36,063
line 23
Loans (other loans and advances)
Q4 2024 156,705 152,803 138,125
line 24
Trade payables
Q4 2024 514,620 499,101 464,015
line 25
Life insurance reserves
Q4 2024 2,076,468 2,077,549 2,042,154
line 26
Pension entitlements
Q4 2024 1,964,913 1,967,197 1,945,064
line 27
Taxes payable
Q4 2024 5,565 6,694 7,171
line 28
Foreign direct investment in U.S.
. . . .
line 29
Miscellaneous liabilities
Q4 2024 1,922,734 1,868,246 1,726,780
   

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