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Finance & investment briefing – June 2015

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 VAT Focus on custody: implications of the FCA’s £126 million fine In...

Finance & investment briefing – March 2015

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...

Incentives code applies to certain trivial commutation exercises

Introduction In December 2014, the Incentive Exercise Monitoring Board Technical Group (the “Group”) published a note confirming that the Code of Practice on Incentive Exercises (the “Code”) applies to one-off trivial...

Finance & investment briefing – December 2014

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 the clearing of derivatives Legal update In practice: DC survey LGPS: New...

Finance & investment briefing – September 2014

The Finance and investment briefing takes a look at current issues of interest to pension schemes and investors. In this Briefing: Top five custody tips for pension scheme trustees Legal update Making the most of your de-risking...

Risk mitigation for OTC Derivative contracts: Sackers’ response

Background Sackers’ has responded to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on it’s Consultation Paper, Draft regulatory technical standards on risk-mitigation techniques for OTC-derivative contracts not cleared...

Fiduciary duties of trustees and others

Introduction On 1 July 2014, the Law Commission published its report on the Fiduciary Duties of Investment Intermediaries. Following the publication of the Kay Review of equity markets, BIS and the DWP asked the Law Commission...