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- We've retained our UK Stewardship Code status
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- Annual Report shows another successful year for the PPF
- Celebrating 20 years of protecting people’s futures
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- David Taylor to leave the PPF
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- Mansion House Reforms: our response to the call for evidence on DB schemes
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- Oliver Morley, Chief Executive, to depart PPF
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- PPF make new £60m investment in landmark UK water infrastructure project
- PPF payments: Your questions answered
- PPF, ONS and TPR publish joint statement on DB pension scheme data
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- Removing the compensation cap and paying arrears
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- The DWP's review of PPF published
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- We concluded the sale of Kodak Alaris to Kingswood Capital Management
- We’re celebrating one year of charity partnership with Lives Not Knives
- We’ve been awarded a distinction from the Institute of Customer Service
- We’ve enhanced our bereavement process
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- David Atkinson joins PPF board as Non-Executive Director
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- Pension Protection Fund announces levy estimate for 2019/20
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- Pension Protection Fund, Unisuper and APG acquire Forico and Tasmania’s largest hardwood estate
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- PPF confirms levy determination for 2019/20
- PPF confirms levy determination for 2022/23
- PPF confirms significant reduction in levy
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- PPF confirms zero levy for 2025/26
- PPF consultation on levy rules for 2021/22 steers a steady course in difficult environment
- PPF consults on 2026/27 PPF levy
- PPF consults on levy rules and announces £415m levy estimate for 2022/23
- PPF consults on levy rules for next three years from 2018
- PPF demonstrates the power of industry engagement and collaboration to drive positive change
- PPF extends 90-day levy payment window for schemes impacted by COVID-19
- PPF focuses on building the diversity of its leadership pipeline as it publishes seventh Diversity Pay Gap Report
- PPF focuses on progress in private markets data in latest TCFD report
- PPF launches expanded Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Strategy to build on five years of progress
- PPF launches next three-year Strategy as it marks 20 years of protecting DB pensions
- PPF launches Trustmark badge for panel firms
- PPF marks 20 years of protection and achievement in its 2024/25 Annual Report
- PPF marks a productive year in its 2023/24 Annual Report
- PPF opens consultation on levy rule for new arrangements with no substantive sponsor
- PPF proposes £100m as levy estimate for 2025/26
- PPF proposes £100m levy for 2024/25
- PPF publishes 20th edition of The Purple Book
- PPF publishes its strategy for the next three years
- PPF publishes s143 valuation assumptions consultation response
- PPF publishes strategic plan for next three years
- PPF publishes strategy for next three years
- PPF publishes third TCFD report
- PPF reports further progress against its diversity targets in latest Diversity Pay Gap published today
- PPF statement on pre-97 indexation Budget announcement
- PPF supports struggling levy payers with payment extension
- PPF to significantly reduce levy as funding strategy review concludes
- PPF welcomes government signal on levy changes
- PPF well placed to run a Public Sector Consolidator
- Shalin Bhagwan has joined the PPF as Chief Actuary
- The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) announces the publication of its first Sustainability Report
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