More trustees could push for sponsor insolvency to protect benefits

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Trustees may be forced to make sponsoring employers insolvent in order to protect the benefits of scheme members, Grant Thornton says.

The collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers, the sale of Merrill Lynch to the Bank of America and the US federal reserve’s bailout of insurer AIG have raised fresh fears over pension scheme def...

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