Comment: Calls for further accounting changes must be resisted

Jonathan Stapleton
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Accounting surveys by KPMG and Hymans Robertson - both published last week - found increases in inflation assumptions have increased markedly but are still failing to keep pace with market assumptions.

KPMG says average long-term inflation rate assumptions have risen by 0.6 percentage points to 3.6% over the past year - an increase that has seen scheme liabilities rise by £100bn during the same p...

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