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“Aims to ensure greater consolidation across pension and retirement saving schemes, together with a focus on value for members, suggest that there is some common ground between the main political parties. However, the Labour Party has...
Partner Ferdy Lovett was delighted to join a panel of industry experts discussing the increasing influence of technology, digital, data and AI on DC pensions, as part of the Standard Life Connect 24 event in London. Topics under the...
In a recent article for Professional Pensions, senior counsel Naomi Brown ponders the question “Can surplus scheme funds be returned to the employer?”. In particular, she looks at why returning surplus to employers is such a lottery...
Partner Jacqui Reid was one of the participants at a recent roundtable hosted by Corporate Adviser which focused on the areas likely to cause friction in the emerging secondary master trust market. These included exorbitant value for money...
Amy Difford, senior associate, is quoted in an article in the May edition of Pensions Age which looks at how the resource-strained Pensions Ombudsman is fighting back against a record caseload. She comments on the new early resolution...
The Pensions Ombudsman has partly upheld the claim of a pensioner of the BIC UK Pension Scheme, meaning the trustee can only recoup a fraction of the overpayment. Some have said the decision lays down a marker for how the new ombudsman...
The PLSA has appointed Sackers partner Philippa Connaughton to its DB Policy Committee. Philippa’s links with the PLSA go back to 2007 when she volunteered to answer a pensions hotline. Since then, she has spoken at many PLSA events and,...
We are delighted to announce that we have become a corporate member of the Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment and Neurodiversity (GAIN), as a further demonstration of our commitment to ED&I. We are also proud to be only the...
