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What is The Purple Book?

Every year we publish comprehensive data and analysis of the UK’s defined benefit pension landscape in The Purple Book. But what does it tell us and how do we use it?

The Purple Book 2023: Scheme funding improves significantly

In this blog, our Chief Actuary, Shalin Bhagwan, shares his thoughts on the key themes in The Purple Book 2023 and what these could mean for the PPF and the wider DB universe.

The Purple Book shows stability in strong defined benefit pension scheme funding

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has today published the Purple Book 2024 which shows the strong net funding position of the universe of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes has remained largely stable over the past year.

The Purple Book 2022 published today

The Purple Book confirms further improvement in the funding position of the defined benefit pensions universe.

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Annual Report 2024/25

Our Annual Report looks back at our achievements and challenges over the last financial year, outlining our financial performance and describing our progress against our strategic objectives..

Celebrating 20 years

For 20 years we’ve successfully protected millions of people’s hard-earned pensions, providing peace of mind and financial stability for our members.

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Modern slavery and human trafficking

The Modern Slavery Act came into effect in March 2015. As one way of tackling the problem of modern slavery, the act requires that all commercial organisations, with a turnover of more than 36 million, provide an annual slavery and human trafficking statement. Modern Slavery Statement 2022 Our statement, as required by law, sets out the steps we're taking to make sure that this doesn't happen.