US - Tighter funding obligations being considered as part of the US single-employer pension funding reform proposals could have the reverse effect of forcing "borderline" companies onto the federal insurance programme, industry experts have claimed.
The new rules are intended, in part, to reduce the exposure of the federal insurer, the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), to future losses from financially weak companies. Harold Ash...
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