UK - Shareholders are far happier for firms to have bank debts than scheme shortfalls, Mercer Human Resource Consulting claims.
High street retailer WHSmith has agreed a bank loan of £270m loan and will use £120m to help plug its £215m pension scheme deficit. But Mercer senior consultant John Exley says bank debts are e...
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