PPF completes transfer of UK Coal assets

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The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has completed the transfer of assets held by the UK Coal pension scheme after the company collapsed following a failed restructuring.

As part of the transfer, the lifeboat fund has taken the 75.1% stake in Harworth Estates Property Group the schemes acquired in the earlier shake up. This 2012 restructuring split UK Coal into a...

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