UK pensions on the brink of surplus

Funding for the pension funds of the UK's 200 largest public companies improved in 2007 as accounting deficits fell 95% last year despite extreme volatility in global equity markets, according to research from Aon Consulting.

The aggregate deficit improved from £40bn (€53.8bn) at the end of 2006 to a £2bn deficit at the end of December 2007.

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