US - Bradley Belt, executive director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), has called for comprehensive reform of the rules governing defined benefit schemes as a means of restoring stability in the nation's pension system.
In a testimony to the US Senate committee on finance, Belt listed a number of “structural flaws” in the system that he said were contributing to the record number of companies abandoning their pens...
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