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(b)

(c)

(d)

CONFIDENTIAL

To what extent would an interest rate guarantee cover exchange rate risk?

Coverage; limited to past service only upto date of introduction, or service to 1997, or beyond?

Trust Fund (eg Provident Fund Scheme)

employer/employee

contributions:

can

be done

retrospectively or only covers future service (ie from date of introduction)?

Insurance-based scheme

Insurance company/companies purchases block of annuities from employer, assuming mortality and interest rate risk, in return for future payments by employer.

Hybrids

(iii)(a) plus (iii)(b) (to cover past and future

service);

(ii) plus (iii)(a), (iii)(b), or (iii) (c) to reduce and

spread element of private sector funding.

Legislative aspects

Tax aspects

Legislation on compulsory retirement schemes (likely to increase demand for long maturity fixed ratio HK $

paper).

IR reluctance to allow borrowing in respect of future

pension entitlements; worried about benefits from tax

breaks designed for income on retirement, but under

above options gains not realised ahead of retirement.

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