EUROPE - Vast differences in how European countries measure life expectancy is wreaking havoc for companies involved in international merger as they attempt to determine pension liabilities, a Cass Business School survey has found.
UBS recently calculated the FTSE 100 companies had a combined pension deficit of more then £40bn, but had this pension liability been calculated using German mortality tables, the deficit would bec...
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