Defined benefit (DB) schemes further upped their allocation to bonds in the year to March 2017, continuing a four-year trend, analysis by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has found.
In its Purple Book 2017, published today, the lifeboat fund said weighted bond allocations - including gilts, inflation-linked and corporate bonds - hit 55.7% in March 2017, up from 51.3% in 2016, ...
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