Affordable DB rendered impossible by regulations

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Increasing amounts of regulation is making it "impossible" for companies to develop affordable defined benefit schemes, trustee champion Brian Holden says.

Holden’s comments come in response to comments by Investment Management Association members that society was "sleepwalking towards the death of DB schemes" (PP, August 7). The IMA said it was pa...

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