The security of UK private sector DB

Looking at the cost of regulation

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Con Keating of Brighton Rock Group discusses the strength of private defined benefit schemes and examines some of the fundamental problems they face.

If we begin by considering the relation between the profitability of the UK private sector and nominal and real GDP growth (Figure 1), we see that the private sector has earned, on average, more th...

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