Barnardo's shuts DB scheme ahead of auto-enrolment

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Children's charity Barnardo's has announced it will close its defined benefit scheme ahead of auto-enrolment.

The scheme, which was closed to new members in 2007, had liabilities of £548m with a deficit of £83.9m at the end of March 2012, up from £73.4m in 2011. Barnardo's finance director Kevin Barnes ...

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