It was publicly released in May 2013 and supplies comparable data on assets in euro area countries (Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Network, 2013a and 2013b).34 The variable drawn from the Eurosystem HFCS defines financial assets as the sum of the values of investments in private businesses (but not the self-employed), sight accounts, saving accounts, mutual funds, bonds, shares, managed accounts, “other” assets, private loans, voluntary pension plans, and whole life insurance schemes. However, it excludes public and occupational pension plans (see Box 2.4 on funded private pensions). While the reader should bear this limitation in mind, examining the data that are available can inform the debate on the adequacy of retirement incomes. They are mandatory or quasi-mandatory in 13 OECD countries.