Then last week, nine of the coalition's leaders wrote over 240 executive directors and CEO's of many of this country's largest public pension funds and private mutual fund families, as well as all fifty state treasurers.

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For Feinberg and Cerberus, one way around this problem was to invest in an industry that most pension-fund backed private equity firms dared not touch.

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Meanwhile the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has calculated that the UK's private sector company pension schemes moved back into surplus in July.

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