FTSE100 pension deficits more than treble in a week

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The ongoing turmoil in the markets has triggered a dramatic trebling of FTSE100 companies' pension deficits in the last week, according to Towers Watson research.

Markets have endured a week of uncertainty as the eurozone struggles to contain both the economic and political fall-out of the Greek debt crisis. For pension schemes, a sharp drop in corporate ...

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