UK - Pension schemes are caught in a "deadly financial pincer movement" by dividend freezes on company shares, delegates at the recent City Forum's ‘Pensions in Crisis' debate at the National Liberal Club, Whitehall, were told.
Frank Field MP, a founding member of the Pensions Reform Group, said dividend freezes were often needed by companies to help pay for their pension fund deficits. “Pension schemes are caught in a...
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