The phrase "assumed rate of return" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in financial contexts to refer to the expected or estimated return on an investment over a specific period.
Example: "When planning for retirement, it's important to consider the assumed rate of return on your investments to ensure you meet your financial goals."
Alternatives: "expected rate of return" or "projected rate of return".
"The higher the assumed rate of return, the lower the requirement on the employer to fund the plan in full," said Andrew Frank Thompson, a finance professor at the University of Northern Iowa College of Business.
Mr. Michael said the fact that a troubled city like Stockton was able to borrow at a rate so much lower than Calpers's assumed rate of return should have raised questions.
While I was governor, the Legislature tried to solve the problem by passing a bill that simply raised the assumed rate of return for the fund from 7.25 percent to 8 percent.
Further, between 2001 and 2015, PA-SERS only managed to exceed its assumed rate of return on three occasions.
A higher assumed rate of return (ARR) equals less appropriated funds the Legislature needs to allocate to the pension system.
In the afternoon, MSPs will debate the Damages (Investment Returns and Periodical Payments) (Scotland) Bill for the final time, which sets the assumed rate of return on investment of particular damages awarded in personal injury cases and will allow the courts to require periodical payments of compensation.
When our politicians use assumed rates of return that are unrealistically high, and out of date mortality tables, both pension and OPEB liabilities skyrocket because it permits policy makers to underfund both, or if you are the State of Connecticut, not to fund OPEB at all.
But what if those assumed rates of return fail to come to fruition?
Results are sensitive to assumed rates of women returning to the clinic when recalled and having a repeat Pap smear once at the clinic.
While news headlines focused on reduced investment return assumptions, pensions quietly also cut their assumed rates of inflation.
By referring to the geographical information of the regions, the FIT is based on the economic evaluation of wind projects, including annual electricity production of a unit area, assumed internal rate of return (IRR) and installation cost.
