Pension Protection Fund

Head of investment strategy Ian Scott speaks to James Phillips about the fund's insourcing programme, how it manages risk exposure, and how claims impact its strategy.

This week's top stories include articles about the CMI's latest mortality projections model and its accompanying report, which show a clear trend in life expectancy.

The UK arm of Toys R Us has entered administration just two months after a major restructuring deal was agreed with creditors including the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) to prevent the company going bust.

In this week's Pensions Buzz, we want to know if The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is taking the right approach by naming and shaming schemes which breach their auto-enrolment (AE) duties.

The PPF 7800 deficit was slashed in half last month as gilt yields rose. Victoria Ticha asks if this is the start of a longer trend

Ensuring British Steel workers were well-equipped to make a decision on their future pension provision was "afforded insufficient priority", and the regulator now needs to review the process, the Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) has said.

The combined defined benefit (DB) deficit decreased by £52.8bn over January to £51.0bn on a section 179 basis, according to the Pension Protection Fund's (PPF's) latest update.

More than 25,000 steelworkers did not return their 'options forms' and as a consequence will remain in the current British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) for now, to move into the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) at the end of March.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has provided little evidence of hard action despite being aware of problems at Carillion since at least 2008, Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) chairman Frank Field has said.

The High Court has ruled that Wedgwood made an effective and valid decision when closing the Wedgwood Group Pension Plan (WGPP) to future accrual and ending the final salary link.