Exhibit 99.1
Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco Announces First Quarter 2019 Operating Results
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25, 2019 — The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco today announced that its net income for the first quarter of 2019 was $104 million, compared with net income of $81 million for the first quarter of 2018. The $23 million increase in net income relative to the prior-year period primarily reflected improvements in net fair value gains and losses associated with derivatives, hedged items, and financial instruments carried at fair value, and a decrease in the expense associated with voluntary charitable contributions for the Quality Jobs Fund, from $10 million in the first quarter of 2018 to $5 million in the first quarter of 2019. The increase in net income was partially offset by a $4 million decrease in net interest income for the first quarter of 2019 relative to the prior-year period, reflecting a decline in spreads on interest-earning assets.
Total assets increased $1.3 billion to $110.6 billion at March 31, 2019, from $109.3 billion at December 31, 2018. Investments increased $4.1 billion, to $36.5 billion at March 31, 2019, from $32.4 billion at December 31, 2018, primarily reflecting an increase in Federal funds sold, available-for-sale securities, and securities purchased under agreements to resell. Total advances decreased $3.1 billion, to $70.3 billion at March 31, 2019, from $73.4 billion at December 31, 2018.
Accumulated other comprehensive income increased by $52 million during the first three months of 2019, to $287 million at March 31, 2019, from $235 million at December 31, 2018, primarily as a result of improvement in the fair value of mortgage-backed securities classified as available-for-sale.
As of March 31, 2019, the Bank was in compliance with all of its regulatory capital requirements. The Bank’s total regulatory capital ratio was 6.0%, exceeding the 4.0% requirement. The Bank had $6.6 billion in permanent capital, exceeding its risk-based capital requirement of $1.9 billion. Total retained earnings as of March 31, 2019, were $3.4 billion.
Today, the Bank’s Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend on the capital stock outstanding during the first quarter of 2019 at an annualized rate of 7.00%. The quarterly dividend rate is consistent with the Bank's dividend philosophy of endeavoring to pay a quarterly dividend at a rate between 5% and 7% annualized. The quarterly dividend will total $56 million, including $4 million in dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock that will be reflected as interest expense in the second quarter of 2019. The Bank expects to pay the dividend on May 14, 2019.
The following information was filed by Federal Home Loan Bank Of San Francisco on Friday, April 26, 2019 as an 8K 2.02 statement, which is an earnings press release pertaining to results of operations and financial condition. It may be helpful to assess the quality of management by comparing the information in the press release to the information in the accompanying 10-Q Quarterly Report statement of earnings and operation as management may choose to highlight particular information in the press release.