The inequity of DB scheme funding

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Funding standards for DB schemes have increased exponentially over the past decades. Con Keating says such significant overstatement of liabilities will lead to pushback through the courts.

This summer will see a spate of developments all intended to increase the level of funding of the rather sad rump of defined benefit (DB) schemes. It seems that the powers-that-be know no limitatio...

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