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PPF 7800 Index Update

The PPF 7800 Index has been updated to the end of February 2010.

Highlights include:

The aggregate funding position (total assets minus total liabilities) of almost 7,400 DB funds is estimated to have improved over the month to a deficit of £15.1 billion at end-February 2010, from a deficit of £51.9 billion at end-January 2010 (Chart 1 and Table 1). Scheme funding is better than it was a year previously (there was a deficit of £204.7 billion in February 2009).
The total deficit of schemes in deficit in February 2010 is estimated to have improved to £79.5 billion from £102.8 billion at the end of January 2010 (Chart 3 and Chart 4). In February 2009, the aggregate deficit of all schemes in deficit stood at £218.0 billion.
In February 2010, the total surpluses of schemes in surplus increased to £64.4 billion from £50.9 billion at the end of January 2010 (Chart 6). In February 2009, the total surplus of all schemes in surplus stood at £13.3 billion.

[Published: 09 March 2010]