Deficits

Marks and Spencer's (M&S) decision to close its defined benefit (DB) scheme to future accrual from April 2017 has resulted in a £127m charge.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) will make companies meet their pension obligations earlier and will not be bounced into agreeing bad deals, Andrew Warwick-Thompson has said.

Workers at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) have voted overwhelmingly for strike action over the company’s plans to close its defined benefit (DB) scheme.

The number of FTSE 350 defined benefit (DB) plans which are cashflow negative has increased from 50% to 57% over the course of the year according to Hymans Robertson.

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IAS 19 is the accounting standard many sponsors use to make disclosures about their defined benefit schemes in their records. But a report from Lincoln Pensions argues IAS 19 is not good enough. Michael Klimes investigates.

The company which bought British Homes Stores (BHS) for £1 from Sir Philip Green maintains the pension schemes were not its responsibility.

The combined funding position of the Lloyds Banking Group defined benefit (DB) schemes deteriorated considerably in the third quarter of the year.

The pensions deficit at Whitbread has increased by 40% from March to September according to its latest half-year results.

Workers at Rolls-Royce will receive a boost to their retirement incomes due to a number of reforms it took more than a decade ago, the Financial Times says.