DEFINED benefit pension schemes reached an aggregate deficit of £194.5bn in December 2008, figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal.
Based on analysis from the Pension Protection Fund's 7800 index, which analyses the pension funding status of more than 7800 UK companies with DB schemes, the findings show high levels of volatilit...
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