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 | | Firms were not required to disclose the expected return, the market-related value, or an analysis of the change in plan assets during the year. |
 | | Thus, we would expect that for sample firms using a SFAV method for calculating expected returns, estimates of the market-related value of plan assets should be lower than the FV of plan assets in 1998, 1999, and 2000. |
 | | The average increases in expected returns from using FV instead of SFV were 17.2% in 1998, 13.8% in 1999, 15.0% in 2000, and 5.8% in 2001. |
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