Corporate stocks increased 7.4 percent from Q1’s $1.094.9 trillion to Q2’s $1.176 trillion. They experienced a year-over-year increase of 15.5 percent from Q2 of 2013. At 34.9 percent, corporate stocks make up approximately a third of the pension systems’ total cash and security holdings for the present quarter.

Corporate bonds, at 11 percent, make up less of the whole, but still contributed a respectable increase to total holdings. They rose 7.1 percent from $346.9 billion in Q1 to $371.5 billion in Q2, and year-over-year gained 16.1 percent from Q2 2013’s $319.9 billion.

International securities, on the other hand, were down quarter to quarter, although they were up from 2013. From Q1 to Q2 of 2014, they fell 2.8 percent from $675.2 billion to $656.5 billion. The year-over-year increase was 11.3 percent from Q2 2013’s $590 billion. International securities make up 19.5 percent of total cash and security holdings for these systems.

Federal government securities, which make up 9.1 percent of the holdings, rose 12.4 percent from Q1 to Q2, from $273.9 billion to $307.8 billion, and gained 16.0 percent year over year from $265.4 billion.

Government contributions fell 6.8 percent from Q1’s $25.7 billion to $24.0 billion in Q2. Year-over-year they were up 4.8 percent, from $22.9 billion in the second quarter of 2013. Employee contributions rose 3.4 percent, from $10.9 billion to $11.3 billion, but a year-over-year decrease of 1.4 percent, from $11.4 billion in Q2 2013.

Government contributions ran 2.1 to 1 over employee contributions for the quarter, with government contributions making up 68 percent and employee contributions making up 32 percent of the whole. Altogether, payments totaled $64.1 billion; that was up 1.8 percent from $62.9 billion in Q1, and up 4.3 percent from $61.4 billion in Q2 of 2013.