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CITY OF LINO LAKES, MINNESOTA <br />NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS <br />December 31, 2015 <br />Note 6 PENSION PLANS (CONTINUED) <br />A. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION (PERA) - DEFINED BENEFIT <br />PLANS (CONTINUED) <br />ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS <br />The total pension liability in the June 30, 2015, actuarial valuation was determined using the following <br />actuarial assumptions: <br />Inflation 2.75% per year <br />Active Member Payroll Growth 3.50%, Average, Including Inflation <br />Investment Rate of Return 7.90%, Net of Pension Plan Investment Expense, Including Inflation <br />Salary increases were based on a service -related table. Mortality rates for active members, retirees, <br />survivors, and disabilitants were based on RP -2000 tables for males or females, as appropriate, with slight <br />adjustments. Benefit increases for retirees are assumed to be 1% effective every January 1St through 2026 <br />and 2.5% thereafter. <br />Actuarial assumptions used in the June 30, 2015, valuation were based on the results of actuarial <br />experience studies. The experience study in the GERF was for the period July 1, 2004, through June 30, <br />2008, with an update of economic assumptions in 2014. Experience studies have not been prepared for <br />PERA's other plans, but assumptions <br />The long-term expected rate of return on pension plan investments is 7.9%. The State Board of Investment, <br />which manages the investments of PERA, prepares an analysis of the reasonableness of the long-term <br />expected rate of return on a regular basis using a building-block method in which best -estimate ranges of <br />expected future rates of return are developed for each major asset class. These ranges are combined to <br />produce an expected long-term rate of return by weighting the expected future rates of return by the target <br />asset allocation percentages. The target allocation and best estimates of arithmetic real rates of return for <br />each major asset class are summarized below: <br />Asset Class <br />Domestic Equity <br />International Equity <br />Bonds <br />Alternative Assets <br />Cash <br />Totals <br />DISCOUNT RATE <br />Target Allocation <br />45% <br />15% <br />18% <br />20% <br />2% <br />100% <br />Long -Term <br />Expected Real Rate <br />of Return <br />5.50% <br />6.00% <br />1.45% <br />6.40% <br />0.50% <br />The discount rate used to measure the total pension liability was 7.9%. The projection of cash flows used to <br />determine the discount rate assumed that employee and employer contributions will be made at the rate <br />specified in statute. Based on that assumption, each of the pension plan's fiduciary net position was <br />projected to be available to make all projected future benefit payments of current active and inactive <br />employees. Therefore, the long-term expected rate of return on pension plan investments was applied to all <br />periods of projected benefit payments to determine the total pension liability. <br />56 <br />