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So why do their companies allow such predictions for pension returns to stand?
Top performing pension returns 29% p.a. Their backyards are safe – what about yours?
In making the case for international investments, Mr. Steel said pension returns in the city had been mediocre.
Accounting rules let companies factor expected pension returns into their operating income; Weyerhaeuser's hedge-fund-laden portfolio allows it to claim expected annual returns of 9.5percentt.
So if pension schemes were the only clients of hedge funds, and if they earned an excess return of two percentage points a year after fees, that would still boost overall pension returns by just 0.4 percentage points a year.
Since most pension fund managers have had at least 60percentt of their assets in stocks for a number of years, they have lately been assuming pension returns in the low double digits.
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Even if pension return assumptions remain too high, as many independent experts believe, pension plans seemingly have been responsive to financial reality.
By lowering the allowance for doubtful accounts (as a percentage of receivables) in a worldwide tech slump, getting its tax rate down and changing pension return assumptions, IBM created $858 million, or 47 cents per diluted share, in aftertax profits.
As long as the stock market keeps moving upward, he said, fulfilling G.M.'s pension-return assumptions, all will be well.
Though unsurprisingly at his strongest when laying out the failures of the mutual fund industry, he presents a very cogent analysis of such current hot-button issues as the hedge fund bubble and corporations faulty pension-return assumptions.
(Bogle, though no longer formerly affiliated with Vanguard, has always been his own best salesman). Though unsurprisingly at his strongest when laying out the failures of the mutual fund industry, he presents a very cogent analysis of such current hot-button issues as the hedge fund bubble and corporations' faulty pension-return assumptions.
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