The Bank of England could slash the estimated £200bn hit to pension scheme funding levels from quantitative easing by fine-tuning its approach, Pension Insurance Corporation argues.
The insurer said focussing the Bank's gilt buying programme on gilts with shorter maturities would reduce the impact on scheme deficits to a fraction of the £200bn figure. This is because longer...
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