Exploring European companies with UK schemes
This survey relates to constituent companies of the Dutch AEX, French CAC40, German DAX, Spanish IBEX, Italian FTSE MIB and Scandinavian OMX share indices that have UK subsidiary companies with defined benefit (DB) pension schemes.
The survey covers 88 European companies with around £180bn of UK pension liabilities between them.
Our report analyses the contributions paid, levels of deficit and levels of risk within the schemes. Data has been taken from the latest available financial statements of the UK subsidiary companies, which are as at 31 December 2016 in most cases. Although the companies are not named directly within this survey, they are represented by the same number in each chart throughout.
"The impact upon performance and return on investments of the UK subsidiary companies can be more pronounced. Comparisons of these subsidiaries against other UK companies without legacy DB pension liabilities, especially on a cash basis, could be heavily influenced by the pension related costs and cash contributions."