PPF consolidator – Pension saviour or scheme cannibal?

Stephanie Hawthorne asks if a PPF consolidator will cannibalise the private sector or be a small scheme saviour?

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Proposals for a PPF-run public sector consolidator aim to help smaller schemes
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Proposals for a PPF-run public sector consolidator aim to help smaller schemes

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF), one of the largest pension schemes in the UK, could be set to be a crucial part of a re-energised new British retirement landscape.

The DWP's Options for Defined Benefit Schemes consultation paper, published earlier this year, promotes the idea of a new PPF role as a public sector consolidator (PSC) to run on schemes. The hope ...

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