FEATURE: Dutch funding levels battered by low discount rates

NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension experts question whether the interbank swap yield curve is the best rate to discount liabilities against, Giovanni Legorano and Raquel Pichardo-Allison report.

  Funding levels of Dutch pension funds have been heavily hampered by low discount rates with funding levels particularly taking a beating in May.Data from the Organisation for Economic Co-Opera...

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