Solving the DB funding challenge

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The PPF's latest Purple Book reveals the significant underfunding challenges in the DB universe, and these will stay with us for the long-term, says Jonathan Stapleton.

On the face of it, the latest edition of the Pensions Universe Risk Profile - the publication more colloquially known as The Purple Book - shows an increasingly positive outlook for defined benefit...

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