Information Sheets

Investment Summary Summer 2010
August 2010
Please click on the link below for our Private Clients Investment Summary for Summer 2010:

Pension News - July 2010
August 2010
In this month's Pensions News we look at: RPI v CPI MP's Pensions Latest news from the Pensions Regulator and the Pension Protection Fund Restricting Pensions Tax Relief Compulsory Annuitisation De...

RPI/CPI issue for UK pension schemes - The dust is settling (a little!)
August 2010
The UK Government has recently announced a proposal to change the way that pension benefits are adjusted to reflect changes in the cost of living. The current statutory requirements for both revalu...

Accounting for Pensions Costs: Universities - July 2010
July 2010
This is our first annual survey of the assumptions adopted by UK universities for determining the value of their pension liabilities for accounting purposes. As well as participating in the Univers...

Pension News - June 2010
July 2010
In this month's Pensions News we look at: The "Emergency" Budget Latest news from the Pensions Regulator and the Pension Protection Fund Basel III Funding with Whisky Multi-employer schemes - secti...

Current Issues In Pensions Financial Reporting - July 10
July 2010
The key financial assumptions for determining pension liabilities under the Accounting Standards FRS17 (UK non-listed), IAS19 (EU listed) and FAS158 (US listed) are the discount rate and the rate o...

Accounting for pension costs - July 2010
July 2010
This is our ninth annual survey of the assumptions adopted by FTSE100 companies for determining the value of their pension liabilities for accounting purposes. This survey is based on data in the p...

Pension News - May 2010
June 2010
In this month's Pensions News we look at: Coalition Agreement Queen's Speech Financial Assistance Scheme Actuarial Profession: Merger PPF 7800 Index To read more please click on the link below:

Proposals for Restricting Pensions Tax Relief
May 2010
Impact on high earners in defined benefit arrangements In December 2009, the Government published a consultation on the implementation of its proposals to restrict pension tax relief for high earne...

Pensions News - April 2010
May 2010
In this month's Pensions News we look at: proposed changes to IAS19 latest news from the Pensions Regulator and the Pension Protection Fund Finance Act 2010 2011: Is Trustee Action Required? To rea...

Election 2010 - Pension Proposals
April 2010
Polls are suggesting the outcome of the 2010 General Election on 6 May is anything but clear-cut. In fact, there is a real possibility that the closest election for some time will result in a hung ...