EFTA Document EFTA01382813

I/A Table of Contents FIRST DATA CORPORATION NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued) The Company employs a building block approach in determining the long-term rate of return for plan assets with proper consideration of diversification and re-balancing. Historical markets are studied and long-term historical relationships between equities and fixed-income securities are preserved consistent with the widely accepted capital market principle that assets with higher volatil