PPF

Independent Trustee Services has strengthened its Pensions Protection Fund specialist team with the recruitment of Susan Barber as trust officer.

UK - The Pension Protection Fund has recruited four new managers alongside its existing manager to develop its globally diversified real estate strategy.

The Pension Protection Fund has recruited four new managers alongside its existing manager to develop its globally diversified real estate strategy.

UK - The Pension Protection Fund has confirmed it aims to collect an overall levy of £600m ($933m) in 2011/12.

The Pension Protection Fund has confirmed it aims to collect an overall levy of £600m in 2011/12.

The 6,560 schemes monitored by the Pension Protection Fund reported an aggregate deficit of £1bn at the end of last month.

Defined contribution provision provides a "grossly inadequate" income and is condemning future elderly to a life of poverty, research by a think tank reveals.

Some 40 members of a scheme whose employer became insolvent may not be covered by the Pension Protection Fund, due to a technicality in the Pensions Act 2004, Ros Altmann says.

Defined benefit schemes are in danger of prejudicing their eligibility for the PPF by compromising their debts when they wind up, lawyers have warned.

PPF's Martin Clarke talks about the long-term levy and the new assess and pay initiative