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The Effect of Inflation on Pension Schemes and Their Funding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2014

D. E. Boden  and
T. D. Kingston
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Synopsis

The paper deals with the problem caused by inflation in pension scheme funding. It considers the question of whether or not it makes sense to fund in advance in the inflationary conditions prevalent in the U.K. and U.S.A. in the post war period.

It goes on to consider how various methods of financing pension schemes cope with inflation. It identifies one of the main problems of advance funding as the way in which it has been used to deal with post retirement pension increases. The authors suggest a new approach.

The authors go on to suggest a consistent method of valuing final salary pension schemes. This method enables the actuary to use valuation assumptions which do not demand choosing an absolute level of salary increases or rate of inflation.

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Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries , Volume 36 , 1977 , pp. 399 - 468
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1977

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