Year: 2024

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Advice Guidance Boundary Review – proposals for closing the advice gap

Background On 8 December 2023, the FCA and HMT published a policy paper on the advice guidance boundary, with initial proposals to change the way financial advice and support are delivered to consumers. It aims to help develop a regulatory...

Consultation on options for DB schemes

Introduction On 23 February 2024, the DWP published a consultation seeking views on proposals to make it easier to make payments from DB scheme surplus to sponsors and scheme members and a model for a public sector DB consolidator run by...

7 Days – 26 February 2024

7 Days is a weekly round up of developments in pensions, normally published on Monday afternoons. We collate this information from key industry sources, such as the DWP, HMRC and TPR. In this 7 Days Finance Act 2024 receives Royal Assent...

7 Days – 19 February 2024

7 Days is a weekly round up of developments in pensions, normally published on Monday afternoons. We collate this information from key industry sources, such as the DWP, HMRC and TPR. In this 7 Days HMRC publishes further LTA guidance...

DC illiquids – Key initial questions – February 2024

The Government is engaged in a concerted policy drive on productive finance and aims to make illiquid investment more accessible to DC schemes. Our latest Hot Topic looks at some of the challenges associated with introducing illiquid...

7 Days – 12 February 2024

7 Days is a weekly round up of developments in pensions, normally published on Monday afternoons. We collate this information from key industry sources, such as the DWP, HMRC and TPR. In this 7 Days Automatic enrolment (“AE”)...

Finance & investment briefing – March 2024

Our Finance & investment briefing (PDF) takes a look at current issues of interest to pension scheme investors. In this briefing Approaching insurers for residual risk cover Legal update Risk transfer highlights...