Buyout saves engineering scheme from PPF after severing ties with sponsor

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The SR Technics UK scheme has avoided entering the Pension Protection Fund after it was cut adrift of its sponsoring employer as part of a corporate restructuring.

The 2,500-member scheme had been in PPF assessment since a shell company set up by the multinational aircraft maintenance firm to take on its pension deficit was wound up. The deficit was transf...

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