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Sometimes pensions issues scupper corporate deals. A recent high profile example of this is WHSmith, where trustee intervention led to the withdrawal of a bid by joint venture company Permira to take over the scheme’s sponsoring...
From “A-Day” (6 April 2006), the eight tax regimes applicable to occupational and personal pensions will be replaced by a single uniform set of allowances. But what effect will stripping away current Inland Revenue limits have...
On 17 May 2004, Opra published new guidance to trustees of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes who are considering compromising an employer’s debt. Agreements to compromise the employer’s debt have become increasingly...
On 12 May 2004, Opra issued a revised Opra Note 6 which offers guidance to non-statutory (or voluntary) whistleblowers on reporting breaches to Opra. This follows the publication of a reworked Opra Note 1, Opra’s guidance for...
A second draft of the Pensions Bill has been published. Following its first publication on 12 February 2004, the Bill has been extensively reviewed during the House of Commons’ Committee Stage. A number of amendments, ranging from...
In the Pensions Bill published in February 2004, the Government unveiled its plans for a pensions compensation scheme. The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is aimed at members of underfunded defined benefit (DB) schemes whose employer goes...
Regulations amending the statutory priority order on the winding-up of an occupational pension scheme were laid on 19 April 2004 and will come into force on 10 May 2004. The Government’s Green Paper of 17 December 2002 put forward...
