NAPF: QE has cost schemes £90bn

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Quantitative easing has cost defined benefit schemes £90bn but smoothing may be "too little, too late", the National Association of Pension Funds warns.

The trade body's chairman Mark Hyde Harrison told attendees at the Occupational Pensions Defence Union's annual meeting last night the Bank of England's policy of buying gilts had hiked deficits an...

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