---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 8475"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "8475"
heading: "Investment policies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/8475"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart G — Insurance and Annuities"
  - "Chapter 84 — Federal Employees’ Retirement System"
  - "Subchapter VII — Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Management System"
---

# §8475. Investment policies


The [Board](/usc/5/8401.md?p=5) shall develop investment policies under [section 8472(f)(1) of this title](/usc/5/8472.md?p=f-1) which provide for—

- (1) prudent investments suitable for accumulating [funds](/usc/5/8401.md?p=6) for payment of retirement income; and
- (2) low administrative costs.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–335, title I, § 101(a), June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 581.)