No-deal Brexit 'could add £140bn' to DB liabilities
Crashing out of the European Union without a deal could push up UK defined benefit (DB) scheme liabilities by £140bn, says Columbia Threadneedle Investments.
With just over two weeks until the planned departure date but no way out yet agreed, the asset manager said there is also a £140bn difference between the effect on scheme funding of a no-deal Brexit and...
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