Irish pension to use benefits to fund levy

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IRELAND - Most small Irish pension funds will fund the controversial new pensions levy by reducing member benefits, an Aon Hewitt survey finds.

The Aon Hewitt Ireland Launches 2011 Defined Benefit Pension Survey, which studied 74 Irish employer sponsored DB schemes, found only one third of respondents would contribute to the levy by either...

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