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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1991-08-20; City Council; 11305; Annual city investments reporti I i ! i I ) 1 \ > I ) z .. s 5 a 5 z 3 0 0 A ANNUAL REPORT ON CITY INVESTMENTS Accept and file the report. ITEM EXPLANATION: One of the City Treasurer's goals is to provide the City Council with clear and understandable information and reports on the status of the investment portfolio. The first step in this process was the modification of the monthly reports to Council to include comparable data from the prior month, year-to-date cash income, and a breakdown of maturities and how it compares with the investment policy approved by Council. The monthly report process provides the Council with a snapshot of the City's investment position at regular intervals, but there has never been a way to show the larger, more general picture of the City's investment performance. The Treasurer's annual report has been designed to fill this need. The Treasurer's Annual Report will give the Council an opportunity to understand how the investment portfolio has changed over time, how the economic cycles of the market have affected the City's interest earnings, and what is expected in the new fiscal year. The fiscal year ended June 30, 1991 (FY 90-91) saw the average amount of assets managed in the portfolio grow to $75,516,000. This was an increase of approximately $8,000,000 from the prior fiscal year. The year-end yield of the portfolio for FY 90-91 was 7.83%, which was a decrease from 8.61% a year earlier and followed the general downward trend of short-term market rates. The City Treasurer assumed management of the investment portfolio of the Carlsbad Water District on July 1, 1991. This increased the portfolio by approximately $11,000,000. Apart from this, however, it is not expected that the portfolio will show much growth in the new fiscal year (FY 91-92). It is SO anticipated that market rates in FY 91-92 will remain close to the present levels. This will cause the yield of the portfolio to decline as investments having a higher yield mature and are reinvested at lower market rates. EXHIBITS: 1. City Treasurer's Annual Report of Investment Portfolio dated June 30, 1991. e e CITY TREASURER ANNUAL REPORT OF INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1991 This is the first annual report by the City Treasurer of the investment portfolio. The City Treasurer is charged with the responsibility of cash management, which includes, among other duties, the investing, accounting, and reporting of all inactive funds. Funds are invested in accordance with the policy adopted by the City Council. Emphasis is first placed on safety and liquidity, and then on yield. The investment portfolio is designed to attain a market- average rate of return throughout budgetary and economic cycles. A passive investment strategy is generally followed. The purpose of this report is to summarize the activity of the investment portfolio for the fiscal year just ended (FY 90-91) in terms of the amount of assets managed in the portfolio, yield achieved, and cash income generated. To give perspective to these measurements, comparisons are made with the preceding four fiscal years where data are available. Finally, a statement is offered regarding the prospects of the forthcoming fiscal year, FY 91-92. FY 90-91 SUMMARY During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1991, FY 90-91, all funds available to the City Treasurer were invested 100% of the time. The average size of the investment portfolio managed by the City Treasurer in FY 90-91 was $75,516,000. This represented an increase of $7,931,000 from the FY 89- 90 average and was a continuation of the increases experienced in the past four fiscal years. Over the past four fiscal years, average assets managed in the investment portfolio incr $75,516,000. r INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO Dollar Amount of Assets * Millions I " ................. ......... 70 -. .................... eo -' ... ....... ...... "'I II 1-1 ... ..... ........ ....... ..... .... .... ..... ... ... ..... 20 -. io -. ..... ..... .... ... U FY 86-87 75.516 67.585 60.512 55.11 55.418 FY 69-90 I FY 90-91 FY 88-89 FY 87-88 I - Fiscal Mar Average8 I I I ~~ ,eased by 37%, from $55,110,000 to The year-end yield of the portfolio for FY 90-91 was 7.83%. This was a decrease from 8.61% a year earlier, and followed the general downward trend of short-term market interest rates, particularly for the last six months of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1991. The market yield for one year Treasury Bills on June 30, 1991 was 6.30%, while on June 30, 1990 it was 8.01%* a 0 I I The requirement to have PORTFOLIO YIELDS * no less than 67% of the With LAIF & One-Year T-Bill Yields * portfolio maturing in one year, and the ::I 7.5 9" 8 , " ...... ' .. .> .~ "+< ... ... \+. ... ... ...... ....... 6.5 .. .... 11 FY 86-87 FY 87-88 FY 88-89 FY 88-90 FY 90-81 LAIF 7.89 7.46 TM 6.65 7.45 0.23 limitation- that no more than 15% of the portfolio could be invested in corporate notes, caused the yield of the portfolio to react quickly to lower market rates. Changes to the investment policy approved by the City Council on April 2, 1991 - - Portlolio - -+ - LAIF + TBill reduced the requirement * Flacal year end yields for one year maturities from 67% to 50% and increased the investments allowed in corporate notes from 15% to 30%. These changes afforded investment alternatives that allowed the yield of the portfolio to decrease at a slower rate than the decrease in market yields as exemplified by one year Treasury Bills. Year-end portfolio yields are compared to yields of one year Treasury Bills, and to rates earned on deposits with the Local Agency Investment Fund (LAIF). LAIF is a fund of money consisting of deposits from agencies in California. Assets in LAIF are invested by the State Treasurer using the same general parameters as those followed by the City Treasurer. The yields of the City's portfolio have consistently exceeded those of LAIF. Cash income from the I 1 portfolio was $5,994,796 I PORTFOLIO CASH INCOME * I for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1991. Cash function of the dollar income is largely a Millions 4 rates at the time of the the portfolio, the market ............ amount of the assets in interest payment schedules of the issues. 7 .......................................... 6 - ............... ... -.. investments, and the ........ ......... 3- 1- ........................ FY 91-92 FORECAST The city Treasurer assumed . "~a~al~a~l~ for FY :8-87, 87-88, 8/-88 5.779 5.985 management of the inactive funds of the Carlsbad Water District in the fiscal year starting July 1, 1991. This increased total assets in the portfolio to approximately $90,000,000. Not counting this assimilation, it is expected that e 0 there will be little or no growth in the average size of the portfolio in FY 91-92. The growth in revenues will continue to be subdued while capital improvement expenditures and debt service payments are expected to remain at approximately the same level as last fiscal year. Market rates are expected to remain close to the present levels for most of FY 91-92. There is also a possibility that some issues having a relatively high yield will be called, i.e redeemed. Either or both of these events will cause the yikd of the portfolio to decline as investments having a higher yield mature and are reinvested at lower market rates.