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Keeping up to date with legislative changes is a daily battle for pensions managers and trustees. Here we remind you of one they prepared earlier – the cessation of the transitional arrangements for member-nominated trustees and...
The Companies Act 2006 is quite literally the largest Act ever to hit our statute books. For occupational pension schemes with corporate trustees the Act’s potential impact on the protection of directors from liability has already...
The Regulator’s anti-avoidance powers (and its guidance on the availability of clearance) have been at the heart of many corporate transactions which involve significant UK pension liabilities. Trustees have quickly learned to flex...
The stream of pensions legislation is never ending. Whilst we are still learning to walk in the twin worlds of the Pensions Act 2004 and the Finance Act 2004, more changes are on the cards. We now have a new double act – the Finance...
Companies routinely cease participating in occupational pension schemes following transactions or group re-organisations. Whenever this happens in a multi-employer defined benefit (DB) scheme, the employer debt legislation is always a...
The Companies Act 2006 aims to codify all existing company law. Although it will not be completely in force until October 2008, some of its provisions have been brought forward and are now coming in from 1 October this year. For...
The Deregulatory Review stems from the realisation that many layers of pensions legislation could be removed, merged or simplified. Following the publication of the White Paper, an advisory group was established to help the Government...
