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TIME WARNER INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS – (Continued)
The table below sets forth a summary of changes in the fair value of the defined benefit pension plans’
Level 3 assets for the years ended December 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011 (millions):
December 31, 2012 December 31, 2011
Hedge Funds Other Total Hedge Funds Other Total
Balance at beginning of period .......... $ 77 $ 36 $ 113 $ 121 $ 12 $ 133
Actual return on plan assets and liabilities:
Relating to securities still held at end of
period .......................... 7 2 9 (14) 2 (12)
Relating to securities disposed of during
the period ....................... (1) — (1) 12 (21) (9)
Purchases ........................... — 12 12 4 7 11
Sales ............................... (20) (9) (29) (46) 34 (12)
Transfers in and/or out of Level 3 ........ — — — — 2 2
Balance at end of period ............... $ 63 $ 41 $ 104 $ 77 $ 36 $ 113
The Company primarily utilizes the market approach for determining recurring fair value measurements.
The Company’s investment policy for its defined benefit pension plans is to minimize the volatility of the
plans’ funded status and to achieve and maintain fully funded status in order to pay current and future participant
benefits from plan assets. The Company determines and periodically reviews asset allocation policies consistent
with its investment policy. In addition, the Company continuously monitors the performance of the pension
investment portfolios, and the performance of the investment advisers, sub-advisers and asset managers thereof,
and will make adjustments and changes as required. The Company does not manage any pension assets
internally. The investment guidelines set by the Company for the investment advisers, sub-advisers and asset
managers permit the use of index funds, futures, options, and other hedging strategies as components of portfolio
management strategies.
Under the Company’s investment policy, the asset allocation target for the domestic defined benefit pension
plans is 35% equity investments and 65% fixed income investments. As and when funded status and market
conditions permit, the Company intends to transition this asset allocation target toward a target of 20% equity
investments and 80% fixed income investments to further minimize funded status volatility. Target asset
allocations for the international defined benefit pension plans as of December 31, 2012 are approximately 60%
equity investments, 25% fixed income investments and 15% other investments.
At both December 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011, the defined benefit pension plans’ assets did not include
any securities issued by Time Warner.
Expected cash flows
After considering the funded status of the Company’s defined benefit pension plans, movements in the
discount rate, investment performance and related tax consequences, the Company may choose to make
contributions to its pension plans in any given year. The Company made discretionary cash contributions
totalling $20 million to its funded defined benefit pension plans during the year ended December 31, 2012. For
the Company’s unfunded plans, contributions will continue to be made to the extent benefits are paid. In
addition, the Company currently anticipates that it will make contributions to certain international defined benefit
pension plans of $10 million in 2013, pursuant to UK regulatory funding requirements.
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