Bosses fail to address increasing scheme member longevity

Jenna Towler
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Some of the country's largest firms are ignoring the threat of increased member longevity and have failed to increase their assumptions, analysis of accounts reveals.

Longevity analysis firm Club Vita scrutinised the 2010 annual accounts of 118 FTSE350 companies with defined benefit pension schemes. It found 57 of these had not increased their longevity assum...

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