DEFINED benefit pension scheme funding levels have not been hit as hard as stock market falls would suggest, Mercer says.
The consultant’s pension update report showed the aggregate FTSE 350 pension scheme surplus was £1bn at 30 September 2008 on an IAS19 basis. Mercer estimated that despite asset falls of £39bn decr...
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