Bridging the gap

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With market returns low and DB deficits growing, trustees are turning to more aggressive investment strategies to plug the gap. Gill Wadsworth discusses the risks involved in this quest for alpha

Deficits in the UK's defined benefit pension funds surpassed the £200bn mark in May this year as schemes struggled to respond to the testing economic environment. The yawning chasm in pension fundi...

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