US - Current accounting rules have helped to improve pension scheme funding status, despite a $35bn aggregate pensions deficit, but left it vulnerable to dramatic falls, according to Mercer.
The increase in AA rated 'high quality' corporate bond yields used to calculate pension liabilities has cushioned the effects of the decline in equity values. Adrian Hartshorn, a member of Merc...
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