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THE COCA-COLA COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTE 16: PENSION AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT BENEFIT PLANS (Continued)
Assumed health care cost trend rates have a significant effect on the amounts reported for the
postretirement health care plans. A one percentage point change in the assumed health care cost trend rate
would have the following effects (in millions):
One Percentage Point One Percentage Point
Increase Decrease
Effect on accumulated postretirement benefit obligation
as of December 31, 2006 $ 117 $ (95)
Effect on total of service cost and interest cost in 2006 $ 15 $ (12)
The discount rate assumptions used to account for pension and other postretirement benefit plans reflect
the rates at which the benefit obligations could be effectively settled. These rates were determined using a cash
flow matching technique whereby a hypothetical portfolio of high quality debt securities was constructed that
mirrors the specific benefit obligations for each of our primary U.S. plans. The rate of compensation increase
assumption is determined by the Company based upon annual reviews. We review external data and our own
historical trends for health care costs to determine the health care cost trend rate assumptions.
Plan Assets
Pension Benefit Plans
The following table sets forth the actual asset allocation and weighted-average target asset allocation for
our U.S. and non-U.S. pension plan assets:
Target Asset
December 31, 2006 2005 Allocation
Equity securities162% 63% 61%
Debt securities 27 24 29
Real estate and other211 13 10
Total 100% 100% 100%
1As of December 31, 2006 and 2005, 3 percent of total pension plan assets were invested in common
stock of our Company.
2As of December 31, 2006 and 2005, 6 percent of total pension plan assets were invested in real estate.
Investment objectives for the Company’s U.S. pension plan assets, which comprise 75 percent of total
pension plan assets as of December 31, 2006, are to:
(1) optimize the long-term return on plan assets at an acceptable level of risk;
(2) maintain a broad diversification across asset classes and among investment managers;
(3) maintain careful control of the risk level within each asset class; and
(4) focus on a long-term return objective.
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