Interest Rate Increases and Defined Benefit Pension Schemes

While Defined Contribution (DC) pension savers have likely seen a drop in the value of their pensions over the last 18 months, Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes have had an altogether different experience. It seems counter intuitive that poor investment performance leads to a strengthening position of a DB scheme but in his latest piece for the FM Report ITL's Eoin Hassett aims to explain this anomaly. 

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Eoin Hassett
Trustee Services Director, Group Pensions

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