Plans for “pension superfunds”, cleared by industry regulators in recent weeks, could pose a threat to financial stability, according to Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England.
Pensions specialists have spent more than two years working on the concept of pension superfunds, through which a number of large defined-benefit pension schemes could be consolidated into one scheme.
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