UK - The equity return, inflation rate and discount rate assumptions used by UK consultants vary widely among clients of the same actuarial adviser firm, and between clients of different advisers, according to a report from Blacket Research.
The report shows that during the 12 months to March 2005, the equity return rate for the median client of Watson Wyatt was over 50bp higher than that of Mercer, while the FRS17 inflation rate assum...
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