Less than 1% of DB surpluses returned to employers since 2006

Punter Southall finds of £100bn of DB surpluses, only £800m has been returned to employers in almost two decades

Martin Richmond
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Less than 1% of DB surpluses returned to employers since 2006

Less than 1% of the £100bn of defined benefit (DB) pension scheme surpluses has been refunded to employers since 2006, research from Punter Southall finds.

The firm's report – Back to the Future: The Return of DB Pension Surpluses – drew on HM Revenue & Customs tax data and historical records from the British Library and analysed the evolution of surp...

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