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Sorting Out the Pensions

In: The National Freight Buy-Out

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  • Sandy McLachlan

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It is doubtful that even a dozen people understand all the implications of NFC’s pension problems. On top of the historical problems — some British Rail employees are in NFC funds and vice-versa — there were actuarial (i.e. valuation) and political problems to be solved at the time of the buy-out. There is no denying that the details are technical, but equally there is no denying just how important they were: the Government gave back more than 80 per cent of the £53.5 million it was paid for NFC to put the pension funds back onto a footing that would be acceptable in a normal commercial enterprise — where there is no automatic government guarantee to make good any shortfall in the pension fund and so the company itself has to transfer money to guaranteed pension funds.

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  • Sandy McLachlan, 1983. "Sorting Out the Pensions," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The National Freight Buy-Out, chapter 8, pages 95-101, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-06850-0_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06850-0_8
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