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Henry Boot PLC<br />
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2015<br />
www.henryboot.co.uk<br />
Stock Code: BHY<br />
Financial Statements<br />
Notes to the Financial Statements continued<br />
for the year ended 31 December 2015<br />
27. Retirement benefit obligations continued<br />
Inflation risk<br />
The present value of the liabilities is calculated by reference to a best estimate of future inflation. If inflation turns out to be higher<br />
than this estimate then the deficit will increase.<br />
Longevity risk<br />
The present value of the liabilities is calculated using a best estimate of the life expectancy of scheme members. An increase in life<br />
expectancies will increase the scheme’s liabilities.<br />
A formal actuarial valuation was carried out as at 31 December 2012. The results of that valuation have been projected to<br />
31 December 2015 by a qualified independent actuary. The figures in the following disclosure were measured using the projected<br />
unit method.<br />
The main financial assumptions used in the valuation of the liabilities of the scheme under IAS 19 are:<br />
Retail Prices Index ‘Jevons’ (RPIJ) 2.30 2.30<br />
Consumer Prices Index (CPI) 2.00 2.00<br />
Pensionable salary increases 1.00 1.00<br />
Rate in increase to pensions in payment liable for Limited Price Indexation (LPI) 2.30 2.30<br />
Revaluation of deferred pensions 2.00 2.00<br />
Liabilities discount rate 3.80 3.60<br />
Mortality assumptions<br />
2015<br />
%<br />
2015<br />
Years<br />
Retiring today (aged 65)<br />
Male 21.9 22.1<br />
Female 24.2 24.4<br />
Retiring in 20 years (currently aged 45)<br />
Male 23.2 23.3<br />
Female 25.8 26.0<br />
The mortality assumptions adopted are the Self Administered Pension Schemes (SAPS) tables with allowance for future<br />
improvements in line with Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) 2014 with an annual improvement of 1% per annum.<br />
The sensitivities regarding the principal assumptions used to measure the scheme liabilities are set out below:<br />
Impact on scheme liabilities<br />
Change in<br />
assumption<br />
Increase in<br />
assumption<br />
2014<br />
%<br />
2014<br />
Years<br />
Decrease in<br />
assumption<br />
Rate of inflation 0.25% Increase by 3.6% Decrease by 3.5%<br />
Rate of general increases in salaries 0.25% Nil* Nil*<br />
Liabilities discount rate 0.25% Decrease by 3.7% Increase by 4.0%<br />
Rate of mortality 1 year Increase by 3.3% Decrease by 3.3%<br />
* Increases in salaries above the 1% assumed would not affect the scheme liabilities as future increases in pensionable salaries are to be capped at a maximum of 1%<br />
per annum.<br />
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