PPF could collect £160m more than target due to risk-based buffer

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THE Pension Protection Fund could collect around £160m more than its target of £675m through the buffer built into risk-based levy demands, a consultant claims.

Lane Clark & Peacock partner Nick Curry said if the extra money was kept by the lifeboat fund it would "add insult to injury" to the hike in the scaling factor used to work out the final cost of th...

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