DB schemes fall out of love with UK equities

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UK pension schemes plan to further cut their exposure to domestic equities at a time when allocations are already at historic lows, an Aon Hewitt survey found.

In the 1990s, schemes were dominant players in the UK stock market and used equities as the main engine to generate returns. But since the turn of the century, UK schemes have slashed average eq...

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