US - The funding status of S&P 1500 pension schemes dropped in July for the third month in a row on the back of falling AA corporate bond yields, Mercer said.
The aggregate funding status of these plans was 81% at the end of July, down one percentage point from the previous month. In the same time period, the Mercer Yield Curve fell to 6.1%, from 6.79...
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