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Room151’s LGPS podcast: unpicking discount rates ahead of the next valuation

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With yields on long-dated gilts surging, many LGPS funds anticipate a drastic improvement of their funding position, in part due to more favourable discount rates. This in turn feeds into calls for employer contribution reductions of even suspensions of employer contributions.

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With yields on long-dated gilts surging, many LGPS funds anticipate a drastic improvement of their funding position, in part due to more favourable discount

Volatile stock markets ahead of US president Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ speech could weigh on asset price estimates for the LGPS triennial valuation.

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