Irish pension funds face a return to funding difficulties according to Hewitt Associates, the global pensions consultants, on Wednesday. Meanwhile, in New York, Standard & Poor’s reported that in August, twenty-three of the 25 developed markets declined in August, with both Greece and Ireland posting double-digit declines.
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