US - The recently passed Pension Protection Act will push US companies towards strategies that better hedge their long-term pension liabilities, according to Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting.
The law, coupled with new accounting rules, will create higher funding targets, restrictions on smoothing and requirements for valuing pension assets and liabilities at a market basis, said Mark Ru...
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