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Finance & investment briefing – September 2024

Our Finance & investment briefing (PDF) takes a look at current issues of interest to pension scheme investors. In this briefing Illiquids and risk transfer Legal...

Quarterly briefing – September 2024

The Sackers Quarterly Briefing Q3 2024 highlights significant developments in pensions, covering key areas such as pensions reform, regulatory developments, new legislation and cases. In this briefing Current legal agenda The new scheme...

FCA consults on the new value for money framework

Introduction Building on its work in tandem with the DWP and TPR, the FCA today published a consultation on detailed rules and guidance for a new value for money (“VFM”) framework. Click here for a PDF of this Alert. In this Alert Key...

7 Days – 5 August 2024

7 Days is a weekly round up of developments in pensions, normally published on Monday afternoons. We collate this information from key industry sources, such as the DWP, HMRC and TPR. In this 7 Days TPR reports on ESG compliance TPO...

New DB funding code laid in Parliament

Introduction After months of speculation, the final draft DB funding code (“the Code”) was laid before Parliament today, with TPR hailing it as “a key milestone in delivering the significant package of work to improve the...

7 Days – 29 July 2024

7 Days is a weekly round up of developments in pensions, normally published on Monday afternoons. We collate this information from key industry sources, such as the DWP, HMRC and TPR. In this 7 Days New DB funding code laid in Parliament...

Court of Appeal upholds High Court’s Virgin Media decision on failure to obtain a s37 confirmation

Introduction On 25 July 2024, in the case Virgin Media v NTL Pension Trustees II Limited (and others), the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court’s 2023 decision on the correct interpretation of historic legislation governing the...