Carillion on PPF's watch list 'since last autumn'
Carillion's 13 UK defined benefit (DB) schemes were added to the Pension Protection Fund's (PPF) watch list by autumn last year, the Financial Times reports.
In an interview with the newspaper, outgoing chief executive Alan Rubenstein revealed the schemes had also been "on the radar" for some time before that, and worries for the schemes' future grew in the...
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