PPF 7800 funding level reverses six months of growth before factoring GMPs

The combined funding level decreased by just over four percentage points by the end of last month to 93.6%, according to the Pension Protection Fund's (PPF) latest update.
At the end of September the index, which tracks 5,588 defined benefit (DB) schemes, reached the highest funding level (97.7%) since June 2011, when it was at 98.2%. However, at the end of October, it was...
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