PPF sees aggregate surpluses rise by £9.1bn in October

Lifeboat fund’s index finds surplus rose to £485.1bn from £476bn at the end of September

Martin Richmond
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PPF sees aggregate surpluses rise by £9.1bn in October

The aggregate surplus of the 5,050 UK defined benefit (DB) schemes in the Pension Protection Fund’s (PPF) 7800 Index rose by £9.1bn in October, research from the lifeboat fund shows.

The organisation's latest data, which estimates the funding of the DB schemes in the index based on a section 179 basis, revealed the aggregate surplus rose to £485.1bn by the end of last month, co...

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