UK - Engineering firm Smiths Group has ended its contribution holiday after an FRS17 valuation of its £2.5bn pension fund revealed a £150m deficit.
The company will now resume employer contributions of £30m a year. The deficit was revealed in the group’s interim results to January 31, which adopted FRS17 calculations for the first time. The ...
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