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Briefing
News on Pensions May 2014
This month's News on Pensions includes: News from the courts, CPS proposal to end tax relief, 2014 Budget update and PPF news.
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Blog
Next splits pension fund to move from a buy-in to a buy-out
In 2010 and 2012, the Next Group Pension Plan completed buy-ins for its pensioner liabilities, our latest blog looks at how it then converted these buy-ins to a buy…
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Blog
Mark Carney’s warning to insurers
The governor of the Bank of England has highlighted the risks insurance companies could be exposing themselves to in the current macroeconomic environment.
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Research
Dutch and German companies with UK defined benefit schemes
Following on from our research of French companies with UK DB schemes, we have carried out two further research reports for German and Dutch companies with UK DB sc…
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Blog
Three is the Magic Number
In this latest blog we look at how the FCA is using the science behind it to help them protect consumers against companies making unfair profit out of them.
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Blog
Skilled Persons Reviews: Looking into the crystal ball
In this blog, we present the activity of SPRs over 2013/14 and comment on what can be seen when looking into the crystal ball.
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Briefing
Pensions liability management
Liability management exercises offer scheme members the opportunity to modify or transfer their scheme benefits to better suit their needs, whilst also benefiting t…
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Blog
Improved funding levels for Tranche 7 schemes
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published its latest annual funding statistics for UK defined benefit and hybrid schemes, based on valuations submitted by Tranche …
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Blog
Bulk annuity transactions near £4.4bn in Q1
Our latest research shows UK insurers completed bulk annuity transactions totalling nearly £4.4bn in Q1 of 2014 more than 50% that the whole of 2013.
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Blog
PRA Supervisory Statements SS3/14 and SS4/14
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have published a supervisory statement discussing its approach to schemes of arrangements.