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Investment Strategy
The Company’s global pension and postretirement funds’ investment
strategies are to invest in a prudent manner for the exclusive purpose of
providing benefits to participants. The investment strategies are targeted
to produce a total return that, when combined with the Company’s
contributions to the funds, will maintain the funds’ ability to meet all
required benefit obligations. Risk is controlled through diversification
of asset types and investments in domestic and international equities,
fixed-income securities and cash and short-term investments. The target
asset allocation in most locations outside the U.S. is primarily in equity
and debt securities. These allocations may vary by geographic region and
country depending on the nature of applicable obligations and various other
regional considerations. The wide variation in the actual range of plan
asset allocations for the funded non-U.S. plans is a result of differing local
statutory requirements and economic conditions. For example, in certain
countries local law requires that all pension plan assets must be invested in
fixed-income investments, government funds, or local-country securities.
Significant Concentrations of Risk in Plan Assets
The assets of the Company’s pension plans are diversified to limit the impact
of any individual investment. The U.S. qualified pension plan is diversified
across multiple asset classes, with publicly traded fixed income, hedge funds,
publicly traded equity, and private equity representing the most significant
asset allocations. Investments in these four asset classes are further diversified
across funds, managers, strategies, vintages, sectors and geographies,
depending on the specific characteristics of each asset class. The pension
assets for the Company’s non U.S. Significant Plans are primarily invested in
publicly traded fixed income and publicly traded equity securities.