WASHINGTON, March 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Total US retirement assets were $49.1 trillion as of December 31, 2025, up 2.1 percent from September and up 11.2 percent for the year. Retirement assets accounted for 34 percent of all household financial assets in the United States at the end of December 2025.
Assets in individual retirement accounts (IRAs) totaled $19.2 trillion at the end of the fourth quarter of 2025, an increase of 1.7 percent from the end of the third quarter of 2025. Defined contribution (DC) plan assets were $14.2 trillion at the end of the fourth quarter, up 1.7 percent from September 30, 2025. Government defined benefit (DB) plans—including federal, state, and local government plans—held $10.0 trillion in assets as of the end of December 2025, a …
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