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The Finance & investment briefing takes a look at current issues of interest to pension schemes and investors. In this Briefing: Five things to know about fiduciary management Focus on MiFID II Derivatives clearing: latest news Legal...
Introduction On 4 March 2015, the DWP published a response to the consultation on the Occupational Pension Schemes (Power to Amend Schemes to Reflect Abolition of Contracting-out) Regulations (“the Response” and “the Regulations”...
Introduction The Pension Schemes Act 2015 (the “Act”) received Royal Assent on 3 March 2015. Originally designed to introduce a framework for defined ambition (DA) (see our Alert), these provisions are now somewhat overshadowed by...
Introduction With the Government’s reforms allowing DC pension savers greater freedom and choice over their retirement options due to come into force from 6 April 2015, the DWP has published a further set of draft regulations designed to...
Introduction The Merchant Navy case concerned an application by the trustee (the “Trustee”) of the Merchant Navy Ratings Pension Fund (the “Scheme”) for approval of an amendment to the Scheme to introduce a new deficit repair...
Welcome to the latest edition of our DC briefing, which highlights topical news on DC pensions from a legal viewpoint. DC schemes should offer members “value for money”. That’s easy to say and difficult to disagree with, but from...
