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Background The DWP has issued a call for evidence on the way the “advice requirement” applies to members with safeguarded pension benefits who wish to transfer those benefits outside the UK. In this response General comments Scale of...
Background The ICAEW is consulting on a revision of its Technical Release on Assurance reporting on Master Trusts. Originally released in 2014, the framework for assurance reporting on master trusts produced in partnership with TPR is...
Background As part of its work to examine how trustee boards can meet the challenge of pension scheme governance in the 21st Century, TPR issued a discussion paper on 22 July 2016, setting out what it is doing to educate and support...
Background The Department for Communities and Local Government (“DCLG”) is consulting on changes to the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013 (“the 2013 Regulations”) and the Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional...
Background The PLSA’s “DB Taskforce” opened a call for evidence on 9 June 2016, in relation to the challenges facing DB schemes and potential solutions. With DB schemes “swimming against the economic and social tide in order to...
Background The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is consulting on four options aimed at helping the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) as part of a wider package of Government support for British steel, steel workers and affected...
Background The Governance Institute is consulting on draft guidance on the practice of minuting meetings. Although not specifically aimed at pension scheme trustees, the guidance will be relevant to trustee boards which are established as...
