TPR has written to trustees of about 120 schemes administered by Prudential to inform them that their members could be receiving wrong pension payments after incorrect sex equalisation calculations were identified. ...
The Pensions Regulator continued to press for consolidation after its annual survey found 99 per cent of small schemes are missing statutory governance requirements....
Former miners campaigning for the government's fifty-fifty split of their pension fund’s surplus to be renegotiated have been told by their own trustees the impact of such a change could be underwhelming....
Sometimes, legal changes creep up on us when we are looking the other way. When, in December 2018, the Court of Appeal decided in favour of the judges and the firefighters in their claim of age discrimination regarding the changes the government had made to...
We are delighted to announce that Partner Anna Copestake has won Lawyer of the Year at Professional Pensions' Women in Pensions Awards 2019....
US conglomerate Honeywell has gone ahead with proposals to merge three of its UK defined benefit schemes on a sectionalised basis, in a bid to lower costs and streamline governance. Mergers enable trustees and employers with multiple DB schemes to benefit from economies of scale, and...
In December, The Court of Appeal ruled that changes to the pension schemes introduced in 2015 were unlawful on age, sex and race discrimination grounds. The government applied for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court, but this application was refused on Thursday because it did...
The Pensions Regulator’s head of regulatory policy, David Fairs, announced plans to “ramp up” its reach on Friday. The plans clearly state that trustees cannot get away with ignoring the regulator’s requirements, bringing small and medium pension schemes closer into the regulator’s orbit....
Partner Anne-Marie Winton will be speaking at the Institue and Faculty of Actuaries' Pensions Conference 2019. ...
According to PMI roundtable 'Getting ready for the end game: Where next for data?', trustee boards are not focusing enough on data issues despite the bad effect poor data can have on members. ...