Forbes

Most Colleges Cost Less Than Their Tuition; Upperclass Students Face High Increases

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. She writes about strategic financial issues in higher education. Beyond the average tuition discount rate, schools are providing ...

Majority of Fed banks voted against December change to discount rate

Directors at two-thirds of the Federal Reserve's regional banks voted to leave the interest rate charged to commercial banks ...
Inside Higher Ed

Survey: Tuition Discounting Still on the Rise

The average discount rate at private colleges topped 50 percent this past academic year, according to a new study from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).
Pensions&Investments

Corporate pension funding ratios improve in October thanks to rising discount rates — Milliman

U.S. corporate pension funding surpluses improved in October thanks to rising discount rates that brought liability values down, according to the latest Milliman 100 Pension Funding index. Milliman ...
Booth School of Business

Sticky Discount Rates

We show that firms' nominal required returns to capital (i.e., their discount rates) are sticky with respect to expected inflation. Such nominally sticky discount rates imply that increases in ...
Business Wire

Milliman analysis: Corporate pension funding improves in October after discount rates rise for the first time since April

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today released the results of its latest Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index (PFI), which analyzes the 100 ...