Pension Protection Fund

The Pension Protection Fund will reduce the cap on its risk-based levy to 0.5% of liabilities.

Gill Wadsworth reports on how trustees are dealing with the continuing funding crisis

UK - The British Chamber of Commerce has called for an immediate suspension of the 2010/2011 Pension Protection Fund levy in a bid to support employers affected by the economic downturn.

Pension schemes to face 'quality mark'; BCC calls for pensions levy to be scrapped; SPC calls for end to annual rise in final salary pensions; British firms must find hundreds of millions for bosses' pensions

The Pensions Regulator is set to launch an expert services framework where pre-selected specialist firms give advice or evidence during complex governance or investment investigations.

Unite has called on The Pensions Regulator to investigate the transfer of the Visteon scheme to the Pension Protection Fund.

The aggregate funding position of the 7400 defined benefit pension funds monitored by the Pension Protection Fund worsened to a deficit of £173.2bn in August.

The Pensions Regulator has appointed Andrew Young and Simon Wasserman to its team of actuaries.

Dorothee Gnaedinger discusses a middle way between final salary and defined contribution schemes

Half of defined benefit pension schemes in the UK do not have a long-term plan to reduce risk, a Hymans Robertson and PensionChair Network survey reveals.