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Negative Rates and Pension Pain
Reuters Aug. 14, 2012 "One of the overlooked victims of the fall and fall of interest rates are corporate pension plans which are facing a ballooning liability even as returns stay tepid. That's because market rates play a key role in valuing pension plan liabilities, and the lower they go the tougher things get for underfunded plans. This may, over time, become a real issue for equity markets, as investors realize that purchases of shares bring not just a right to benefit from future streams of earnings but also the responsibility to meet potentially huge future streams of retiree payouts." |
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