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The Advocate General (AG) of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has delivered his opinion – the first stage towards a judgment in the highly anticipated Heyday case. The case challenges provisions under the Age Regulations which...
Amendments made to the Pension Schemes Act 1993 by the Pensions Act 2007, included a facility to allow contracted-out occupational pension schemes to convert members’ Guaranteed Minimum Pensions (GMPs) into ordinary scheme benefits....
Contents The September, 2008 Quarterly Briefing (PDF, 266 KB) highlights significant developments in pensions law, covering key areas such as pensions reform, regulatory developments, new legislation and cases. Finance Act 2008 Royal...
Maternity leave – is it all pensionable? What changing administrators might not change the people administrating the scheme. Full benefits for civil partners? Download...
On 14 April 2008, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced its intention to enhance the Pensions Regulator`s powers “to require contributions to pension schemes when sponsor actions materially reduce the security of...
The fashion this year seems to be for pension schemes to consider entering into buy-in insurance policies. The lure of removing volatility from funding, and “locking the safe” with part of a scheme’s liabilities being...
With so many defined benefit (DB) pension schemes in long-term run-off, managing risk is a hot topic for scheme sponsors. And the emergence of a new buyout (and buy-in) market has widened the de-risking options available to pension...
