Foreign Posts’ Retirement Asset Investments

For this report, we reviewed the investment practices for pension funds of the Postal Service and 11 foreign posts. The current pension plans of the foreign posts exhibit very different features, from the number of employees, eligible individuals, and retirees covered to the structures of plans offered. Regardless of these differences, we noted the common element across the 11 foreign posts is diversification of pension investments. Eight of the posts invest in three or four asset classes, and the remaining posts invest in two asset classes.