EUROPE - Companies with heavily under-funded pension schemes could face increased pressure on their credit ratings as investors become more wary due to badly performing stock markets.
A new report by investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein states that under-funded pension schemes have debt-like characteristics and concludes that these deficits are becoming more of a negat...
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