At the end of 1960, corporate pension funds in the United States had assets of $28.7 billion, and the average rate of growth recently has been almost $3 billion annually. As lately as 1954, assets were only $12 billion. In 1960, 50 per cent of the net receipts of all pension funds was invested in common stocks, substantially more than in any previous year except 1959. As of December 31, 1960, one-third of pension fund assets was invested in common and preferred stock; but based on market value, such investments comprised almost 45 per cent of the value of fund assets. Two decades ago”even had pension funds attained a magnitude approaching their present size-only a small fraction of the total would have been in common stocks.

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