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CITY OF ST. ANTHONY, MINNESOTA NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS December 31, 2018 Mortality rates for all plans are based on RP-2014 mortality tables. The tables are adjusted slightly to fit PERA’s experience. Actuarial assumptions for the General Employees Plan are reviewed every four to six years. The most recent six-year experience study for the General Employees Plan was completed in 2015. The most recent four-year experience study for the Police and Fire Plan was completed in 2016. The following changes in actuarial assumptions occurred in 2018: General Employees Fund • The mortality projection scale was changed from MP-2015 to MP-2017. • The assumed benefit increase was changed from 1.0% per year through 2044 and 2.50% per year thereafter to 1.25% per year. Police and Fire Fund • The mortality projection scale was changed from MP-2016 to MP-2017. The State Board of Investment, which manages the investments of PERA, prepares an analysis of the reasonableness on a regular basis of the long-term expected rate of return using a building-block method in which best-estimate ranges of expected future rates of return are developed for each major asset class. These ranges are combined to produce an expected long-term rate of return by weighting the expected future rates of return by the target asset allocation percentages. The target allocation and best estimates of geometric real rates of return for each major asset class are summarized in the following table: Target Long-Term Expected Asset Class Allocation Real Rate of Return Domestic Stocks 36%5.10% International Stocks 17%5.30% Bonds (Fixed Income)20%0.75% Alternative Assets (Private Markets)25%5.90% Cash 2%0.00% Total 100% DISCOUNT RATE The discount rate used to measure the total pension liability in 2018 was 7.50%. The projection of cash flows used to determine the discount rate assumed that contributions from plan members and employers will be made at rates set in Minnesota Statutes. Based on these assumptions, the fiduciary net position of the General Employees Fund and the Police and Fire Fund was projected to be available to make all projected future benefit payments of current plan members. Therefore, the long- term expected rate of return on pension plan investments was applied to all periods of projected- benefit payments to determine the total pension liability. 71