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Backlash from business as Pension Protection Fund’s reserves swell to more than £12bn
Protector, protect thyself
PPF makes a play for the throne
Statutory public corporation says its role should be expanded so that it can manage healthy defined benefit schemes
Pension Protection Fund reserves exceed shortfall of the plans it protects for the first time
Investment chief concerned by ‘stickiness of inflation’ and prefers infrastructure and forestry
Government examines sweeping change to role of Pension Protection Fund to unlock billions for investment
Contributions seen as unnecessary with many retirement plans seeing unexpected surplus
Shortcomings exposed when yields soared while lifeboat scheme was much better organised
LDI strategies threatened to unravel after Kwarteng’s mini-Budget tax cut hit gilt prices
Ministers urged to review PPF policy for elderly members exposed to cost of living crisis
Questions over whether UK retirement lifeboat should hand back cash after strong investment returns
Employees of failing companies should not transfer out of defined benefit funds but trust PPF umbrella
UK accounting watchdog alleges conflict of interest in arranging sale of bedmaker to HIG
Rising insolvencies likely to add to burden for employers, says lifeboat scheme
Pension Protection Fund’s cap on retirement benefits ruled unlawful
UK pilots’ union Balpa wins case against PPF rules limiting payouts to younger members
Regulator and lifeboat fund to retain their influence over rescue talks after UK government backtracks on proposals to limit their role
Sector says that emergency measures hand too much power to banks
Dominic Chappell battled for 3 years to have action quashed
No change required in £620m levy to be paid by companies in 2020/21
Seafaring knight sweetens offer to help keep Arcadia afloat
Voicing concern over Arcadia’s CVA shows TPR is longer being bullied in the schoolyard
Industry safety net could be at risk without strict rules
Watchdog ends investigation into offloading of £300m in pension liabilities
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