Shareholders' Letter
Shareholders' Letter
Shareholders' Letter
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The analysis of the comPlan’s pension assets by investment categories and investment strategy<br />
is as follows:<br />
Category Investment strategy 31.12.2010 31.12.2009<br />
Third-party debt instruments 56.0% 53.3% 58.4%<br />
Equity instruments 26.0% 27.5% 25.5%<br />
Real estate 8.0% 8.5% 6.9%<br />
Cash and cash equivalents and other investments 10.0% 10.7% 9.2%<br />
Total plan assets 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%<br />
Swisscom expects to make payments to pension funds for ordinary employee contributions in<br />
2011 totalling CHF 216 million.<br />
Actuarial assumptions<br />
2010 2009<br />
Funded Non-funded Funded Non-funded<br />
Assumptions pension plans pension plans pension plans pension plans<br />
Discount rate at December 31 2.74% 2.87% 3.46% 3.56%<br />
Rate of increase in compensation levels 2.24% – 2.24% –<br />
Long-term rate of return on plan assets 3.96% – 3.98% –<br />
Pension increases 0.10% 0.10% 0.10% 0.10%<br />
Life expectancy at age of 65 – men (number of years) 19.65 19.65 18.71 18.71<br />
Life expectancy at age of 65 – women (number of years) 22.81 22.81 21.72 21.72<br />
Additional disclosures on the defined benefit obligations and plan assets<br />
The table below presents the carrying amounts of the recorded defined benefit obligations and<br />
plan assets as well as experience adjustments made during the current year and the past four<br />
years:<br />
In CHF million 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006<br />
Defined benefit obligations (8,414) (7,640) (7,110) (7,715) (8,342)<br />
Plan assets 7,254 6,810 6,065 6,863 6,745<br />
Underfunding (1,160) (830) (1,045) (852) (1,597)<br />
Experience adjustments on<br />
defined benefit obligations<br />
Experience adjustments on<br />
58 24 (7) (9) 15<br />
plan assets (23) 378 (1,200) (272) 72<br />
Consolidated financial statements 166 | 167<br />
Notes to the consolidated financial statements