WASHINGTON – Investments as a percentage of assets were as high as 81% and as low as 11% for the country's top 50 largest credit unions as of Sept. 30, 2005. According to Callahan & Associates, the most current data shows that Connecticut State Employees Credit Union had 81.38% of investments as a percentage of assets while Pentagon FCU had 11.77%. Meanwhile, yields on investments ranged from 2.5% on the low end to 4.79% on the high end. Federal agency securities, at 43%, were the investment of choice for most CUs, according to Callahan. That was followed by corporate CUs at 15.9%, cash at corporates at 11.7% and banks and savings & loans at 11.2%.

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