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Royal Mail Pension Plan (RMPP) has selected BlackRock to manage its £8.8bn pension scheme assets as an outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO). The transfer of staff and assets completed on 1 February. Sackers advised the Trustee and...
Senior counsel Emma Martin has contributed an article to Redington’s first Future of Retirement Income publication, which captures the complexities faced by DC savers nearing and in retirement. Bringing together leading experts from...
We are pleased to announce the hiring of a new associate, Sophia Russell. Her arrival takes the total number of qualified lawyers at Sackers to 63. David Saunders, senior partner at Sackers, said: “We continue to recruit new people at...
As buy-out volumes look set to beat all records in 2023, Stuart O’Brien was asked by Pensions Expert for his views on how to make sure that a scheme is enticing to insurers. You can read the full...
Today, Sackers announced that Eisha Lal and Mollie Kilfoyle have joined the firm as Graduate Solicitor Apprentices. David Saunders, senior partner, said: “Historically, the route to becoming a qualified solicitor has followed a very...
Many trust-based pension schemes have a rule that allows or requires the scheme to extinguish a person’s entitlement to benefits after a certain time limit (often six years). The law around using these rules has been hotly contested by...
Janet Brown comments in Pensions Expert’s article on the DB funding code of practice. TPR’s new rules aim to move DB schemes towards targeting full funding and low risk investment by the time the scheme has reached significant...
