UK - The number of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes in deficit and covered by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) fell 1% to 70% by the end of October 2007.
Figures released by the PPF showed the total deficit of these 7,800 schemes had fallen £2bn to £48bn in the same month. Surplus levels grew more rapidly in the same period, with a £7bn increase ...
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