Smiths supports UK scheme with £43m gilt investment

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Global technology firm Smiths has agreed a 10-year funding plan for its two principal UK defined benefit pension schemes.

The complex deal - completed after the group's triennial valuation revealed a deficit of £305.3m - will see it make cash contributions of £36m a year to the Smiths Industries Pension Scheme (SIPS)....

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