PPF

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.

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.

UK - A High Court test case involving the Ilford Pension Scheme will determine if trustees owe any duties to the Pension Protection Fund, lawyers said.

Andrew Sheen takes a look at how current economic turmoil is affecting defined benefit pensions

Con Keating and Andrew Slater of BrightonRock provide some lessons in institutional design

Risk sharing has come too late to save the majority of DB schemes, discovers Kelly Gregor. What is needed is deregulation and a more flexible approach from government

Nick Boyes of Alexander Forbes assesses the effect of recession on pension schemes and employers

Con Keating and Andrew Slater of BrightonRock muse on misconceptions of risk, asset allocation and the death of pensions

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.