The Investment Management Association has urged the government to consider the wider policy implications if pension liabilities are discounted using the risk free rate.
The trade body’s response comes as the Accounting Standards Board’s discussion paper proposes to replace to the double A corporate bond discount rate currently used with a risk-free rate of return,...
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