Cookson to offer ETV to deferred members despite surplus

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Cookson is to offer deferred members of its defined benefit scheme an enhanced transfer value to leave the scheme to cut its future liabilities.

The materials science company also said it would switch to using the Consumer Prices Index to value the benefits of the scheme's remaining members. The offer was revealed in the company's half y...

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