February 2004 News

Barnett Waddingham Duo Win Institute of Actuaries Prize
February 2004
Barnett Waddingham are proud to announce that the Institute of Actuaries' Council has awarded a CMI working party on which Tony Leandro and Rajeev Shah of our London office were part, a prize for thei...

Pension Accounting Standards
February 2004
Nigel Hacking summarises the proposals put forward by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in respect of their review of the international accounting standard (IAS19). Background The In...

Funded Unapproved Retirement Benefit Schemes
February 2004
Adrian Waddingham reviews the significant changes being proposed by the Government to the tax treatment of FURBS. An update to this article was issued in June 2004 entitled " FURBS and the 2006 Tax Si...

Simplicity, Security and Choice - The Pensions Bill 2004
February 2004
On 12 February 2004 the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Andrew Smith, published the Pensions Bill, to be known as the Pensions Act 2004, designed to protect members of defined benefit pensio...