Day eight: Box Clever trustees needed 'intellectual gymnastics' to ignore the PPF

James Phillips
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The trustees of the Box Clever Group Pension Scheme made a "perfectly reasonable and right" decision to delay triggering a Pension Protection Fund (PPF) assessment period, the Upper Tribunal has heard.

The tribunal is in the final stages of hearing a case where The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is seeking to enforce a financial support direction (FSD) on five ITV group companies base on their historic...

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