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The Bribery Act 2010 came into force on 1 July 2011. It aims to update and simplify the UK’s anti-corruption laws. The Act creates 4 offences: offering, promising or giving a bribe (active bribery); requesting, agreeing to receive or...
A “buy-in” is simply an annuity held in the trustees’ name. By contrast a “buy-out” is an annuity held in the member’s name. Buy-ins are simply another scheme investment and are attractive to employers...
A buy-out is the bulk purchase of annuities in respect of some (partial) or all (full) of the members of a pension scheme. The difference between a buy-out and a buy-in is that, in the former, the annuities are purchased in the names of...
When a member of a DB pension scheme leaves, having completed at least 2 years’ pensionable service, they become entitled to a preserved (or deferred) pension in respect of their accrued benefits. Legislation currently requires such...
Under a salary sacrifice arrangement the scheme becomes effectively “non contributory” with the employee “sacrificing” an equivalent amount of salary. In return for this, their employer will make a contribution to the scheme on...
The trustees of an occupational DB pension scheme are required to prepare, and from time to time review and if necessary revise, a schedule of contributions. The schedule sets out the rates of the contributions payable to the scheme and...
The scheme funding provisions contained in the PA04 require trustees to prepare a statement of funding principles (SFP) for ensuring, amongst other things, that the statutory funding objective (SFO) is met. The SFO requires a DB scheme to...
