In-house pensions · 2026-27 cycle

Pension Protection Fund actuarial school leaver route and deadlines

An in-house pensions team. The actuarial work sits inside the scheme, or inside the employer that sponsors it, rather than in a firm selling advice to it. Every actuarial route we follow at Pension Protection Fund is below, with the window in the employer’s own words, the closing date where one is published, and the day it was last read.

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programmes: 1
open now: 0
opening soon: 2026-27
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Updated daily, last checked 11 September 2026 · last full manual review 29 July 2026. Employer pages can change between checks, so confirm the current details on the employer’s own page before you apply. Something missing or wrong: hello@acttuary.com

What Pension Protection Fund has published

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Apprenticeship programmes (2026/27 register)

Open

School leaver

The window: A wide range of apprenticeship programmes for the 2026/2027 financial year; the speculative register accepts applications until 31 March 2027
Closes: The employer has published no closing date for this route.
Locations: Croydon, London
Practice areas: Pensions, Public sector
What to know: The statutory lifeboat for defined benefit schemes, with its own in-house actuarial and investment teams in Croydon. The live route on 24 August 2026 was a speculative register: you apply once, and the PPF contacts you when a suitable apprenticeship opens. No actuarial-badged early-careers vacancy was live at that read; actuarial and trainee roles post to the same vacancies board, so check it directly.

Pension Protection Fund careers page Apply

Last checked: from the employer's page, 24 August 2026

What to do now

Applications are open. Rolling recruitment closes plenty of these schemes as soon as they are full, so the closing date is a ceiling rather than a plan: apply in the first week you can, and get the numerical tests out of the way before the window shuts.

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