We prepare updates on latest developments and changes in the market place as they affect pension arrangements.
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Previous updates issued can be accessed from the links opposite:
| Legislation Updates Listing 2004/05/06/07 & 2008 |
| Topic |
Updates |
| Administration Anomolies |
8/07 |
| Age Discrimination |
5/06, 23/06, 1/07 |
| Agreement over Investment Strategy |
5/07 |
| Benefit Crystallisation Events |
25/06 |
| Bulk Transfers |
1/06, 9/06 |
| Buy out of Pension Liabilities |
2/07 |
| Contingent Assets |
19/06 |
| Contingent Funding |
5/07 |
| Civil partnership Act 2004 |
3/04 |
| Cost Containment |
5/04 |
| Commutation of Trivial Pensions |
5/05 |
| Contracting-Out |
6/06, 1/07, 13/06 |
| Conflicts of Interest |
7/06, 20/06 |
| Conservative Party Policy |
13/07 |
| Death Benefits only Members |
1/04 |
| Disclosure of Information |
5/06 |
| Enhanced Protection/Primary |
2/06, 7/06, 16/06, 15/06, 22/06 |
| FRS17 Liabiblities |
4/0 |
| Funding of Defined Benefit Plans |
14/06 |
| General |
7/07, 5/08, 6/08 |
| Government Policy |
12/07 |
| IDRP |
1/06 |
| Internal Control Requirements |
2/06, 7/06 |
| Ill Health/ Early Retirement |
6/06, 18/06 |
| Individual Transfers |
9/06 |
| Life Assurance only Members |
21/06 |
| Life Expectancy |
3/08 |
| Mortality |
1/06 |
| Multi Employer Schemes |
18/06 |
| Overseas Transfers |
13/06, 24/06 |
| Overpayment Made in Error |
26/06 |
| Pensions Bill |
1/08 |
| Pension Simplification |
2/04 |
| Pensions Act 2004 |
4/04 |
| Purchase of Annuities |
3/05 |
| PPF Levy |
9/05, 1/06, 1/07, 4/07, 5/07, 2/08, 8/08 |
| Protected Rights |
13/06 |
| Process for Registration |
15/06 |
| Pro’s and Cons of Trust & Contract Based Schemes |
3/07 |
| Raising the Standard for Professionals |
4/05 |
| Recovery Plans |
11/07 |
| Reporting to the Pensions Regulator |
2/06, 28/06 |
| Refunds of Contributions |
12/06 |
| Rule Amendments |
1/04 |
| Section 75 |
10/07 |
| Serious Ill Health |
18/06 |
| Sex Change |
18/06 |
| Scheme Rules |
2/06, 11/06 |
| Scheme Specific Funding |
2/06, 17/06, 11/06 |
| Scheme Wind Ups |
27/06 |
| Summary of Provisions |
2/04 |
| Summary Funding Statements |
5/06, 5/07 |
| Statement of Investment Principles |
2/06 |
| Statutory Funding Objective |
11/05 |
| Taxation |
5/07 |
| The Pensions Regulator |
10/05, 2/06, 28/06 |
| The New Scheme Funding Regime |
6/05, 11/06 |
| Transfer Value |
7/08 |
| Trustee Liability Insurance |
6/07 |
| Trustee Training |
10/06 |
| Trustee Knowledge & Understanding |
2/06, 2/05 |
| Trivial Commutation for Pensions in Payment |
2/06, 2/05 |
| Unusable Surplus |
5/07 |
Withdrawal of an Employer where more Than one company participates in a U.K DB Plan
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7/05 |
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