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This year’s New Year sales may look set to run and run, but for schemes to see a reduction in their 2009/10 levy they need to submit their pension protection levy certificates to the Pension Protection Fund’s (PPF) contingent...
Perhaps following a haunting by the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally published its response to its consultation on Flexible Retirement and Pension Provision (issued in October 2007), together...
Responding to the emergence of new business models which may “reduce the security provided by the pension scheme’s sponsoring employer”, the Pensions Act 2008 makes provision to enhance the Pensions Regulator’s...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has started its Christmas countdown by bearing gifts for the pensions industry; publishing consultation draft regulations which propose a number of amendments to rules governing pension schemes....
With the summer’s success at the Beijing Olympics still ringing in its ears, the Government is knuckling down to preparations for the London Games in 2012. And faced with a similar timetable for Personal Accounts, its other big...
Just a few weeks ago, the latest equalisation decision was handed down by the High Court in Foster Wheeler Limited v Hanley & others. Although it is now over 18 years since the ECJ’s decision in Barber, in our inaugural eNews we look...
On 14 April 2008, the Government announced sweeping changes to the Pension Regulator’s anti-avoidance powers. These were designed to tackle “new business models” in pensions which, in severing the link between sponsor and...
