{"id":3631,"date":"2005-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"us-pension-accounting-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2005\/us-pension-accounting-shift.html","title":{"rendered":"US pension accounting shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC &#8211; Proposed changes to pension fund accounting in the US are likely to prompt a shift of investment away from equities and into bonds while speeding the demise of defined-benefit plans,according to investment experts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">  The accounting changes under consideration by the Financial Accounting Standards Board would require defined-benefit funds, which hold about $4,000bn (\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c2\u00ac3,399bn \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a32,336bn) in assets, to stop  &#8220;smoothing&#8221; their returns and instead report actual returns each year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c.moreover.com\/click\/here.pl?b426550784&amp;r=MSNnews\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC &#8211; Proposed changes to pension fund accounting in the US are likely to prompt a shift of investment away from equities and into bonds while speeding the demise of defined-benefit plans,according to investment experts. The accounting changes under consideration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}