Citigroup Rumoured To Buy Second Pension Scheme

Citigroup is rumoured in negotiations to acquire a second final salary pension scheme. According to an unnamed source cited in a report in British daily the Times, the bank is believed to be mulling buying a European scheme with a

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Citigroup is rumoured in negotiations to acquire a second final-salary pension scheme.

According to an unnamed source cited in a report in British daily the Times, the bank is believed to be mulling buying a European scheme with a value of around $400 million.

The bank has also identified a number of other targets, and has a fund of around $1 billion to make these acquisitions, the source added.

News of the prospective deal comes just two weeks after Citigroup purchased a shell company containing the Thomson Regional Newspapers fund for around $400 million.

That deal represented the first time that a bank in Britain had bought a company retirement fund.

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