About the data

Benchmarking

Compare U.S. fund holdings measured from N-PORT with the U.S. Treasury's TIC survey.

The U.S. Treasury's International Capital (TIC) system surveys U.S. holdings of foreign securities once a year. N-PORT reports the same holdings every quarter, security by security.

Each chart below plots shares of the external portfolio rather than dollars, because while we cannot compare dollar totals between TIC and N-PORT, we can compare the currency and country composition of foreign holdings.

U.S. Mutual Fund Holdings of Foreign Debt by Currency

Each currency's share of the external bond portfolio · 2019–2024 · dashed line marks agreement

% of the external portfolio
  • USD
  • EUR
  • JPY
  • Other
  • 2019
  • 2020
  • 2021
  • 2022
  • 2023
  • 2024

Global Capital Allocation ProjectSource: SEC Form N-PORT via GCAP. Both sides are restricted to U.S. mutual funds, which makes this the one panel where the dollar levels are comparable as well. TIC figures are from the U.S. Treasury's annual Securities (c) Holdings survey; N-PORT is as of each Q4, on the method paper's foreign-holdings definition. At the mutual-fund level TIC resolves only USD, EUR, JPY and a residual, with no separate sterling figure, unlike the all-holdings file used in the next chart. N-PORT is bucketed the same way, so GBP sits inside Other. 2019-2023 come from the survey file directly; 2024 is read from the published report, in dollars rather than percentages, so the panel keeps its dollar column throughout.

U.S. Holdings of Foreign Debt by Currency of Denomination

Each currency's share of the external debt portfolio · 2019–2024 · dashed line marks agreement

% of the external portfolio
  • USD
  • EUR
  • JPY
  • GBP
  • CAD
  • AUD
  • CNY
  • Other
  • 2019
  • 2020
  • 2021
  • 2022
  • 2023
  • 2024

Global Capital Allocation ProjectSource: SEC Form N-PORT via GCAP. TIC figures are from the U.S. Treasury and cover all U.S. holdings of foreign long- and short-term debt, not funds alone, resolving USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, CAD, AUD, CNY and a residual. 2019-2023 come from the underlying dollar figures; 2024 is taken from Exhibit 12 of the published report, which gives percentages only, so no dollar column is shown for that year. N-PORT covers registered funds, so the two portfolios differ in size by construction; plotting shares is what makes them comparable.

U.S. Holdings of Foreign Equity by Country

Each country's share of the external equity portfolio · 2019–2024 · dashed line marks agreement

% of the external portfolio
Survey year2024

The chart shows 2024.

Global Capital Allocation ProjectSource: SEC Form N-PORT via GCAP. TIC figures are from the U.S. Treasury's bilateral holdings data, published for all U.S. holdings; there is no country breakdown for funds alone. Countries are assigned as in the method paper: an identifier-based country of issuance rather than the country the filer reported, with holdings still coded to the United States attributed to the Cayman Islands, since those are overwhelmingly Cayman-domiciled holding companies and Chinese ADRs. Use the slider to move between survey years.

What this comparison can and cannot show

  • Only the first chart compares like with like in dollars. TIC reports a mutual-fund sector once a year, while its currency and country breakdowns exist only for all U.S. holdings combined. Every panel is therefore plotted as a share, because composition is comparable across the two universes even though levels are not.
  • TIC is annual. All three panels now reach 2024, its latest year. N-PORT runs to 2026Q1 and is quarterly, so the comparison is limited by the survey, not by the filings.
  • TIC's detail is coarse by design. Currency resolves four currencies and a residual, and only for debt; country detail is published for all U.S. holdings but never for funds alone. These charts show what the survey allows, not what N-PORT can do.
  • Fund shares are included here, where the rest of the site drops them. TIC counts shares of foreign-domiciled funds as portfolio equity, so matching it means keeping holdings whose issuer is itself a registered fund, about $73bn in the latest quarter. Totals on this page differ from every other page for that reason.