Leader: A dark accounting tunnel

Taha Lokhandwala on the challenges to healthy scheme funding

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The last few weeks has seen the release of annual company accounts with a mixture of overall circumstances but hardly much good news on the pension scheme front.

What has been great to see was schemes really push the value of their assets over 2012 with some seeing double-digit improvements. However many have come unstuck by accounting methods which tarnish...

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