The Public Pension Agency has placed real estate investments at the top of its list of investments, as the annual report of the Foundation for the year 1435/1436 AH explained that the comprehensiveness of the economic outlook for its various investment activities necessitates the placement of real estate investments among the most important investments, especially since it is one of the important investments that pension funds tend to in most countries of the world, stressing the Foundation's interest in this aspect. The fair value of the Foundation's real estate assets amounted to (26,809) million riyals by the end of the reporting year, achieving an increase of (0.6%) over the previous year.

<The report confirmed that last year the Foundation achieved a total return on its financial investments of 5.7% until the end of the year, while the fair value of its assets reached (26.809) billion riyals, and the returns on the Foundation's investments consist of cash returns and unrealized returns resulting from the increase in the market value of investments.
The annual report of the Public Pension Agency for the fiscal year 1435/1436 AH referred to statistics related to retirees, deceased beneficiaries, single-payment holders and the systems applied in the Public Pension Agency during the fiscal year 1435/1436 AH.

Emlak newspaper reports the most important and prominent aspects of the report:

1- The total number of retirees at the end of the fiscal year 1435/1436H amounted to (662,645) retirees, including (494,254) living retirees, while the total number of deceased retirees amounted to (168,391) deceased retirees.

1- The total number of retirees at the end of the fiscal year 1435/1436H amounted to (662,645) retirees.

2- The total amount disbursed as pensions to retirees and their beneficiaries as a single payment (50.147) million riyals for the fiscal year 1435/1436 AH (2014 AD), as the institution has disbursed a total amount of (506.288) million riyals since its establishment.

3- The number of beneficiaries of the pension program. The number of beneficiaries of deceased retirees according to the data at the end of the fiscal year 1435 amounted to (405,418) beneficiaries who continue to pay, and the percentage of the highest category of beneficiaries by kinship (40.5%).

3- The number of beneficiaries of deceased retirees according to the data at the end of the fiscal year 1435 amounted to (405,418) The number of beneficiaries of the daughters of deceased retirees reached (164,315) beneficiaries.

4- The total number of beneficiaries reached (164,315).

4- The total number of single payment holders as of the end of the fiscal year 1435 amounted to (175,756) employees, an increase of (1.3%) from the previous year.

5- The total number of pensioners as of the end of the fiscal year 1435 amounted to (175,756) employees. <The total number of retirees by gender at the end of last year 1435 H. The vast majority of them are male retirees, whose number (605,112) and (91.3%) of the total number of retirees, while the number of female retirees (57.The increase in the number of male retirees during the period was (7.8%), while the increase in the number of female retirees was (16.4%).

6- Percentage of male retirees who reached (605.112) with a percentage (91.3%) of the total number of retirees. <The percentage of retirees by age groups (45-49) and (50-54) constituted the majority (44%) due to the coincidence of these two age groups with the age of military retirees of different military ranks and early retirees of civilian retirees whose service period exceeded 25 years in most cases, while the percentage of retirees aged (60-64) amounted to (20.1%) of the total retirees,
In the field of fixed asset investment, the Foundation adopts a long-term investment policy based on the principle of distribution and diversification of assets according to a range of ratios approved by the Board of Directors, as decided by the Foundation's Investment Committee, and based on specialized studies prepared by the largest international consulting institutions in the field of asset management and distribution, and the Foundation realizes the importance of diversifying its investments on different instruments, in order to reduce overall risks with a focus on local investments.
As a result of these strategies and policies, which are constantly reviewed and followed up by the Investment Committee in line with the developments in the local and international financial markets, the Foundation's investments have achieved returns that enabled it to meet its immediate obligations as required by the retirement systems. During the past year 2014, the Foundation was able to achieve a total return on its financial investments of (5.7%) until the end of the year, noting that the returns on the Foundation's investments consist of cash returns and unrealized returns resulting from the increase in the market value of investments.

The Foundation contributes to the support and development of the national economy by investing an important part of its assets in the shares of new and existing local companies in various economic sectors, and the number of local companies invested in (63) companies, including (45) companies listed on the stock market and achieved a return of (5.7%) during the year compared to the stock market index 0.6%.