The SOMA Portfolio through Time

Meryam Bukhari, Alyssa Cambron, Michael Fleming, Jonathan McCarthy and Julie Remache

No 20130812, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: The System Open Market Account (SOMA) is a portfolio held by the Federal Reserve to support monetary policy implementation and reflects assets and liabilities (domestic, and some foreign) acquired through open market operations. The SOMA has attracted greater attention in recent years as, with the federal funds rate near its lower bound, the size and composition of the domestic portfolio has been used as an active monetary policy instrument. Earnings on the SOMA portfolio represent a significant amount of the Fed?s income and, given the substantial increase in the size of the portfolio and shift in its composition, income has increased notably, with remittances to the Treasury totaling $88.4 billion in 2012.

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Date: 2013-08-12
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