Comment: Just what do DB and John Wayne have in common?

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Just as I was becoming jaded by the number of companies trying to drum up free publicity by releasing surveys or figures pointing to the drawn out death of defined benefit pensions, along came refreshing research from Hewitt, which showed most companies that still had DB schemes had no intention of shutting them.

This is great news and I hope it filters through to the doom mongers out there. A City big wig who I was speaking to recently, and who asked not to be named, likened the number of stories about the...

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