US - Large companies could lose more than the $70bn which has already vanished off balance sheets through their pension funds in 2008, according to Mercer.
The consultants studied the pension funding status of companies in the S&P1500 at the end of Q1 2008compared with that of October 2007 and found a drop from an overall $120bn surplus to a $20bn def...
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