January 2005 News

Exam Success Winter 2004/05
January 2005
A report on recent achievements by Barnett Waddingham LLP staff in the actuarial profession and pension administration examinations. This winter's professional examination results provided numerous re...

Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes - Are Pension Schemes affected
January 2005
Ian Ward from our Amersham office discusses the implications for pension schemes of the new Tax Avoidance Schemes Regulations 2004. In the March 2004 Budget the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced m...

Amendment to IAS19, the International Accounting Standard for Employee Benefits
January 2005
Nigel Hacking discusses the amendment to the international accounting standard IAS19 recently published by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). On 16 December 2004, the International A...

Secured Unfunded Unapproved Benefit Schemes SUURBS
January 2005
Many employers with high-earning executives who are subject to the Earnings Cap currently use a Funded Unapproved Retirement Benefit Scheme (FURBS) to provide retirement benefits on salary in excess o...

Barnett Waddingham Christmas Party 2001
January 2005
After several years at Chelsea FC, Barnett Waddingham's Christmas Party this year made a big-money transfer across the West End to... no, not cash-flush Fulham FC, but rather the Thistle Hotel at Marb...