Disclaimer
The SOA Pension Section Council makes the following Citigroup Pension Discount Curve statistics available on our website as a service for our members. The publishing of these statistics does not imply an endorsement of either the methodology for development or use of these statistics for pension accounting or other purposes.
Citigroup Pension Discount Curve and Liability Index (formerly Salomon Brothers)
New EXCEL file includes complete information dating back to 1995.
Note that we have expanded our CPLI family to include two additional discount rates calculated for pensions with shorter liabilities than those of the standard CPLI. The new CPLIs are calculated using the same discount curve and methodology as the standard CPLI but with shorter liabilities (WALs of 21.9 years and 16.8 years compared to the standard CPLI's WAL of 26.9 years. We have back-calculated the new CPLIs to 31 December, 2009. See the attached document for details.
April 2013 Highlights from Citigroup
The overall rate on the Citigroup Pension Liability Index (CPLI) fell 25bp from 4.32% to 4.07% during the month. Treasury yields fell, but spreads were little changed. The net present value of the CPLI increased 5.15% for the month, and the YTD return moved to +1.25% as of the end of April. The CPLI duration lengthened to 19.1 years as of the end of the month.
The number of bonds used to construct the 4/30 curve was 439, up 3 from the 3/31 curve.
Quantitative Pension Strategy: Bank Downgrades Sink CPLI
- The bank downgrades announced by Moody’s on 21 June, 2012 caused the debt of five banks to be removed from the universe of bonds used to calculate the Citigroup Pension Liability Index.
- We estimate that had those downgrades been in effect as of the end of May, the level of the CPLI would have been 4.14%, 20bp lower than the 4.34% reported.
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Contact for Technical Questions
If you have technical questions about the development of the Citigroup Pension Discount Curve, please contact, Martin Bernstein, Pension Risk Analysis Group, Citigroup Global Capital Markets by phone 212.723.6067 or through email (martin.bernstein@citigroup.com).
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