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Pensions expert John Ralfe said: "Premier has got to be on the pension regulator's 'to watch' list."

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Public sector liabilities are still grossly underfunded, says Ralfe.

John Hutton refuses to give a green light to slash and burn on pensions Michael White 2010

After actuarial adjustments, independent pensions expert John Ralfe estimated it would cost £20m to fill the hole: "It would be interesting if the regulator took another look, but I suspect the answer to that would be no."

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Critics such as John Ralfe have long regarded private sector final salary schemes as a bit of a con, dangled before staff to justify senior management's own generous self-provision.

John Hutton refuses to give a green light to slash and burn on pensions Michael White 2010

Ralfe said: "These huge off-balance sheet side bets should certainly be disclosed in Royal Mail's own accounts; since they are not, it raises the question whether Royal Mail itself and the Business Department knew about them in the run up to privatisation."

Royal Mail 'put £5bn of its pension fund at risk' 2010

Ralfe told the BBC that bridging the deficit "could conceivably push the company into administration."

Regulator to determine the size of the EMI's pension scheme deficit 2010

Ralfe said part of the occupational scheme was being run like a hedge fund, with the potential for profits and losses far in excess of anything the business itself is likely to make in the near future.

Royal Mail 'put £5bn of its pension fund at risk' 2010

But Ralfe said it was equally possible the fund may have lost £2bn if the stock market had carried on falling.

Royal Mail 'put £5bn of its pension fund at risk' 2010

Suddenly we were joined by CBC reporter Tim Ralfe who asked Trudeau a very emotional question about his decision to invoke the War Measures Act. An angry Trudeau replied: There's a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns.

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"The unrest is now confined to the east, not in the diamond producing area of Kasai," Ralfe told the Financial Times.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003