Government policy "crippling DB schemes"
IRELAND - Government policy is to blame for the demise in quality defined benefit (DB) pension schemes, according to the Allied Pension Trustees.
An impractical and naive funding standard was “squeezing the life” out of quality DB schemes, Allied Pension Trustees CEO Vincent Boyle told the Irish Association of Pension Funds annual benefit conference...
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