UK - Over 50% of the top 200 company pension schemes are back in surplus as a side effect of the summer's credit crunch, according to research from Aon.
This is because companies must use AA bonds to benchmark their pension liabilities. But as the likelihood of defaults has risen, these bond spreads have widened, bringing down the financial burden ...
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