UK - Pensioners of the Thorn Pension Fund have accused Nomura of wanting to hive off a scheme surplus before selling the company.
The group claims the Japanese bank - which bought Thorn in 1998 - persuaded fund trustees to switch 90% of the fund’s assets into corporate bonds to generate a surplus which it could then skim off...
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