# ASC 325-965-45: Investments—Other — Plan Accounting—Health and Welfare Benefit Plans — 45 Other Presentation Matters Source: FASB Accounting Standards Codification, Basic View [Read online](https://asc.understandingaccounting.org/asc/325/965/#45-other-presentation-matters) Study and research edition. Verify current requirements with the official source. Summaries, enrichment, and tags are machine-generated study aids. Paragraph html preserves source markup; snippet is abbreviated. Pending content is not necessarily effective. Tables and mathematical or amendment markup are retained as HTML where Markdown would lose structure. 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Information regarding a plan's investments shall be presented in enough detail to identify the types of investments and shall indicate whether reported fair values have been measured by quoted prices in an active market or have been determined otherwise (paragraph [965-325-50-2](https://asc.understandingaccounting.org/asc/325/965/#325-965-50-2) specifies additional disclosures related to investments). ##### [325-965-45-2](https://asc.understandingaccounting.org/asc/325/965/#325-965-45-2) Pending content: no Source downloaded (UTC): 2026-09-09T23:48:51.726Z to 2026-09-09T23:48:51.726Z Record version: sha256:b26e9d1b7eb4b10cb60d940ad0730e709e3d3dd1add833d208df13d564e7bb3c Snapshot version: sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f Effective as of: not established by retrieval timestamps. Investments measured using fair value in the statement of net assets available for benefits or in the notes shall be presented by general type, including the following: 1. a Registered investment companies (also known as mutual funds) 2. b Government securities 3. c Short-term securities 4. d Corporate bonds 5. e Common stocks 6. f Mortgages 7. g [Subparagraph superseded by Accounting Standards Update No. 2012-04](https://asc.understandingaccounting.org/updates/asu-2012-04/). 8. h Real estate. For the presentation of [fully benefit-responsive investment contracts](https://asc.understandingaccounting.org/glossary/f/#fully-benefit-responsive-investment-contract "An investment contract is considered fully benefit-responsive if all of the following criteria are met for that contract, analyzed on an individual basis: The investment contract is effected directly between the plan and the issuer and prohibits the plan from assigning or selling the contract or its proceeds to another party without the consent of the issuer. Either of the following conditions exists: The repayment of principal and interest credited to participants in the plan is a financial obligation of the issuer of the investment contract. Prospective interest crediting rate adjustments are provided to participants in the plan on a designated pool of investments held by the plan or the contract issuer, whereby a financially responsible third party, through a contract generally referred to as a wrapper, must provide assurance that the adjustments to the interest crediting rate will not result in a future interest crediting rate that is less than zero. If an event has occurred such that realization of full contract value for a particular investment contract is no longer probable (for example, a significant decline in creditworthiness of the contract issuer or wrapper provider), the investment contract shall no longer be considered fully benefit-responsive. The terms of the investment contract require all permitted participant-initiated transactions with the plan to occur at contract value with no conditions, limits, or restrictions. Permitted participant-initiated transactions are those transactions allowed by the plan, such as any of the following: Withdrawals for benefits Loans Transfers to other funds within the plan. An event that limits the ability of the plan to transact at contract value with the issuer and that also limits the ability of the plan to transact at contract value with the participants in the plan, such as any of the following, must be probable of not occurring: Premature termination of the contracts by the plan Plant closings Layoffs Plan termination Bankruptcy Mergers Early retirement incentives. The plan itself must allow participants reasonable access to their funds. If access to funds is substantially restricted by plan provisions, investment contracts held by those plans may not be considered to be fully benefit-responsive. For example, if plan participants are allowed access at contract value to all or a portion of their account balances only upon termination of their participation in the plan, it would not be considered reasonable access and, therefore, investment contracts held by that plan would generally not be deemed to be fully benefit-responsive. However, in plans with a single investment fund that allow reasonable access to assets by inactive participants, restrictions on access to assets by active participants consistent with the objective of the plan (for example, retirement or health and welfare benefits) will not affect the benefit responsiveness of the investment contracts held by those single-fund plans. Also, if a plan limits participants' access to their account balances to certain specified times during the plan year (for example, semiannually or quarterly) to control the administrative costs of the plan, that limitation generally would not affect the benefit responsiveness of the investment contracts held by that plan. In addition, administrative provisions that place short-term restrictions (for example, three or six months) on transfers to competing fixed-rate investment options to limit arbitrage among those investment options (equity wash provisions) would not affect a contract's benefit responsiveness."), which are measured at contract value, see paragraphs [965-325-35-8](https://asc.understandingaccounting.org/asc/325/965/#325-965-35-8) and [965-325-50-2](https://asc.understandingaccounting.org/asc/325/965/#325-965-50-2).