Industry figures call for public sector discount rate re-think

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The Treasury should ditch plans to use GDP expectations to set public sector pension discount rates because it "fundamentally misrepresents" pension economics, leading figures say.

In a letter to Chancellor George Osborne - signed by some two dozen pension academics and actuaries - former head of Boots corporate finance John Ralfe (pictured) said index-linked gilt yields shou...

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