Capital Market Assumptions: 10 Consultant Outlooks

January 2, 2018

In the case that multiple capital market assumptions were produced by a consultant in a single year, we used the most recent assumptions for that year. Local currency and unhedged assumptions were used in this research. All observations in the following sections of this paper are limited to the scope of the data covered in this research.

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