The Governor of the Bank of England has denied quantitative easing has accelerated the decline of defined benefit provision.
Mervyn King told the Lords Economic Affairs Committee that the demise of DB provision "cannot be laid at the door" of QE. He said: "The very unfortunate demise of defined benefit plans to a larg...
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