NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds should use long-term bond rates to discount liabilities in order to better insulate them from financial crises, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development said.
In its Economic Survey of the Netherlands 2010 report released today, the OECD said the 1.25 percentage point drop in the discount rate between mid-2008 and mid-2009 resulted in the funding ratios ...
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