EUROPE - Royal Dutch/Shell Group pension fund will realise a reduction in net assets of US$4.9bn when the IFRS reporting standards come into effect in January 2005.
Under the Europe-wide move to IFRS accounting, the company is obliged to include all unrecognised actuarial gains or losses on defined benefit pension plans in its financial statements, currently p...
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