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Alliance Boots, backed by US buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, become the latest in a string of FTSE 100 companies to cut down its final-salary schemes over the past year, following the movement of Barclays, BP, Whitbread, DSG International, WM Morrison and Trinity Mirror.
The gold-plated scheme of Boots has a surplus of £188m and the [...]

Insurers should work with European governments to negotiate a greater role for the private sector in welfare provision and funding long-term healthcare.
Mr. Moss, who runs the biggest insurer in the UK, will tell financial leaders at the Davos summit this week that the sector is well placed to offer the kind of affordable savings and [...]