Another international DB fund bites the dustBY WWW.THESHEET.COM | THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2006 8:29AMThe National Australia Bank's UK operations have become the latest company to dump their final salary-based defined benefit pension plan in an attempt to control the ballooning costs of such schemes, according to UK reports. |
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