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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 assessment costs, an excessive focus on charges and conflicts of interest for trustees. Participants agreed that basic...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
Associate director Emily Rowley was one of the speakers at Barnett Waddingham’s DB conference on 25 April on the evolution of the alternative risk transfer market and the role of endgame solutions....
Partner Janet Brown comments: “After decades in the wilderness, DB surpluses are back in business. The Government’s consultation on options for DB schemes, which closes tomorrow (19 April),...
