UK - Trustees from Sainsbury's pension fund have quoted estimates that fund deficits could be as high as £3bn, whilst competition hots up for the supermarket giant's imminent sale to private equity investors.
Sainsbury’s had previously estimated its pension fund deficit at £477m using IAS19, which trustees regard as “misleading”. Although the trustees are “agnostic” about the impending takeover, it will...
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