DB is on the losing side of history

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Reading my PP email on Monday, I noticed that Mercer's Chris Hull had come up with some valuable ideas on how to help solve the issue of public sector pensions.

Responding to Lord Hutton’s commission, he called for an LGPS-type arrangement to be rolled out across the public sector system (see page 10 of this week’s issue). He also calls for a hybrid define...

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