UK companies are needlessly paying £5bn into defined benefit pension schemes because their funding targets are more than 10% higher than necessary, PwC research finds.
PwC said current methods of calculating the contributions needed to cover future pension payouts are dated, too blunt and do not reflect the way scheme assets are invested and the longer term gains...
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