US - The overall funding position of US corporate defined benefit (DB) pension plans rose during the first quarter of 2009, according to UBS Global Asset Management.
The firm's quarterly US Pension Fund Fitness Tracker, which measures the funding ratio of typical corporate DB schemes, showed the average scheme health rose six percentage points from 78% at the e...
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