NAPF council chairman: Use QE wind-up profits to save weakest schemes

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The Treasury should use the proceeds from winding up quantitative easing to prop up failing pension schemes and support the Pension Protection Fund, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

In an evidence session with the Treasury Select Committee on QE yesterday, NAPF chairman Mark Hyde Harrison and NAPF Retirement Policy Council chairman Ruston Smith made suggestions for how to use ...

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