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Background The DWP is consulting on draft regulations on bridging pensions whichintroduce a power for trustees of schemes which provide bridging pensions to amend their schemes’ rules by resolution to take account of the impact of...
Background We note that the Government’s intended policy on CARE schemes is to allow them to be used as qualifying schemes for the purposes of automatic enrolment, so long as they provide for the accrued rights to benefits under the...
Background The DWP’s consultation on equalising groups includes regulations and a possible equalisation method which propose changes to the Equality Act 2010 and the Pensions Act 2004 (the Acts) to remove the requirement for a...
Background Three options are proposed in on the DWP’s consultation on “Meeting future workplace pension challenges: improving transfers and dealing with small pension pots”: minor changes to the current system to make...
Background On 1 March 2011, in the Test-Achats case, the CJEU ruled that, with effect from 21 December 2012, an exemption in the “Gender Directive” which permits insurers to use sex as a determining factor in their assessment of risk...
Background On 1 March 2011, in the Test-Achats case, the ECJ ruled that, with effect from 21 December 2012, an exemption in the “Gender Directive” which permits insurers to use sex as a determining factor in their assessment of risk...
Background Part II of EIOPA’s draft response to the EU Commission, in connection with its Call for Advice on the review of the EU Pensions Directive, considers proposals to apply Solvency II style funding requirements to occupational...
