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DC briefing – March 2024

In this briefing, we reflect on the budding Mansion House reforms and highlight some key agenda items and matters to keep an eye on over the coming...

Autumn Statement 2023 – it’s a bumper pensions crop

Introduction Among the Autumn Statement’s 110 growth measures, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, announced a “comprehensive package of pension reform that will provide better outcomes for savers, drive a more consolidated...

DC briefing – October 2023

The DC briefing (PDF) highlights topical news on DC pensions from a legal viewpoint. In this briefing: On the horizon The Mansion House reforms – the pensions...

What does the consumer duty mean for pension scheme trustees?

The FCA’s new consumer duty aims to set higher and clearer standards of consumer protection across financial services, requiring firms to put their consumers’ needs first. It applies from 31 July 2023, for new products and services and...

The Mansion House Pensions Avalanche

The natural inclination is to ‘do’. It is human instinct. Do something; do anything; do everything. Never is that urge stronger than when what looks like seismic changes appear in the rear-view mirror.  The type of changes like those...

Mansion House Reforms – the pensions avalanche

Introduction As widely trailed in the press, the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, delivered his Mansion House speech last night. Being guided by three golden rules, including seeking to secure the best possible outcomes for pensions savers, he...

Project management
What does the future hold for defined contribution?

The only certainty in the pensions industry (in my experience anyway) is that there is no such thing as a quiet year. Now that the dust has settled on the Spring Budget tax changes, it is an opportune time to look at what the future might...