The net cost of buyout for pension schemes which remained heavily exposed to equities became 13% more expensive during 2008, latest figures by Paternoster reveal.
Despite this, the firm's buyout index also showed that for these schemes the affordability of buyout remained unchanged over Q4 of 2008. However, it also showed schemes which de-risked by holding...
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