Pension Protection Fund

My column last week ended with a defence of public sector defined benefit pension schemes and the hope that from this last bastion of shared risk, a future model for retirement savings might one day emerge.

UK - The Pension Protection Fund is set to become one of the largest pension schemes in the UK in the next five years, Hymans Robertson warned.

The Pension Protection Fund is set to become one of the largest pension schemes in the UK in the next five years, Hymans Robertson warns.

Guarding a scheme through the Pension Protection Fund is not always straightforward, as Emma Hanley explains

As British Airways' DB scheme returns the company's guarantees, Matthew Swynnerton discusses the concern that others employers may attempt to access their ‘insolvency protection' cash

The aggregate funding position - total assets minus total liabilities - of defined benefit schemes improved by over £40bn over the last month, the Pension Protection Fund says.

The Pension Protection Fund and similar lifeboat funds are "dangerous black holes", the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says.

Caroline Helbronner and Frances Phillips Taft look at a pension fund's responsibility in the face of the economic downturn

In the second Pensions Review, Peter Scales, Terry Faulkner, Alan Pickering and Paul Craven discuss the PPF, Scheme Specific Risk Assessment, hedging, derivatives, the role of the trustee and more.