Chief execs vent concerns over spiralling costs of DB

Jenna Towler
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Spiralling defined benefit costs and uncertainty over future European Union scheme solvency proposals are constraining UK business performance, a survey of leading chief executive shows.

More than two-thirds of business leaders polled by the Confederation of British Industry and Towers Watson said providing DB schemes had a "significant impact" on balance sheets, stifling firms' ab...

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