U.S. public and private defined benefit plan’s actual assets totaled $8.01 trillion at the end of 2015, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest Financial Accounts of the United States report.
Corporate DB assets totaled $2.88 trillion and state and local government DB assets reached $3.62 trillion at the end of the year. The federal government's DB assets totaled $1.51 trillion.
The figures reported in a March 10 P&I Daily story did not account for a change in the Federal Reserve’s method of reporting, and did not reflect the actual assets held by those plans.