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Taking trustee meeting minutes is an art form. Quarterly trustee meetings, in particular, often tackle a wide range of technical and potentially sensitive issues. The move to video-conferencing (and the IT challenges which have come with...
Discussions about trustee protection used to be pretty straightforward. Employers were mostly content to give, and trustees to rely on, a broad indemnity both during the life of the scheme and following wind up. Members would get their...
As life moves increasingly online, many trustees will be looking to set up or develop their scheme website. Communications specialists will clearly take the lead on a website project, but there are good reasons why trustees should also...
Discretionary decision-making can feel tricky at the best of times for trustees seeking to ‘do the right thing’. With the increase in virtual meetings, systems for decision-making might be a bit different to normal and practices might...
The FCA’s consultation on advising on pension transfers has now closed and we wait with baited breath for the response; expected in early 2021. Add that to the lists of reasons for wishing 2020 away. In the meantime though, there’s...
So, you’re a pension scheme trustee, and a pretty experienced one at that. When making a decision that involves your exercising a discretion, you are familiar with the key legal principles: Correctly understand the question you are...
Pension schemes hold large amounts of personal data which are key for providing benefits. However, this can make them a target for fraudsters and criminals who can use personal data to gain access to bank accounts or for identity theft. As...
