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Pensions trends in 2023

Heading into the new year, trustees of occupational pension schemes will need to think about their environmental, social and corporate governance duties. In Employee Benefits, David Saunders points out that schemes with relevant assets of...

Net zero – trustees’ fiduciary duties and the new climate regulations

Net zero refers to achieving balance between the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced and the amount of GHG removed from the atmosphere. When human activities add no more GHG emissions than we take away, we reach net zero....

Recovery of overpayments

The High Court’s recent judgment in CMG Pension Trustees Limited v CGI IT UK Limited [2022] EWHC 2130 (Ch) (CMG) has practical impact for pension schemes seeking to recoup overpayments made to members. Amy Difford’s article in...

Pensions trends in 2023 – ESG

Heading into the new year, trustees of occupational pension schemes will need to think about their environmental, social and corporate governance duties. In Employee Benefits, David Saunders points out that schemes with relevant assets of...

Baby it’s getting warm outside

Since the introduction of the Pension Schemes Act 2021 and the climate-related governance and reporting regulations that followed, more schemes are falling into the scope of TCFD reporting requirements. Stuart O’Brien’s column in...

Project management
Sackers advises Coats UK Pension Scheme on its £350m bulk annuity buy-in transaction with Aviva

The buy-in secures the defined benefit pension liabilities of around 3,700 members of Coats’ UK Pension Scheme, removing investment and longevity risk while ensuring benefits and the way they are paid to members are not affected. Partner...

Moving to a professional corporate sole trustee

There has been a considerable rise in the number of pension schemes appointing a professional corporate sole trustee in recent years, and that trend is set to continue. That’s not to say that the trustee board model is broken and, for...