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Compromise on EU pensions directive grants boon for cross-border schemes
Revised Directive may permit cross-border schemes to use recovery plans – but is this too little, too late?
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Briefing
Current Issues in Pensions Financial Reporting 31 July 2014
Our July 2014 Current Issues in Pensions Financial Reporting newsletter is specifically aimed at those involved in the preparation of pension disclosures of Univers…
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Case Study
Innovative buy-out
We carried out an innovative buy-out for part of the Lloyd’s Superannuation Fund (LSF), a £500m multi-employer defined benefit scheme associated with the Lloyd’s of…
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Research
Impact of pension schemes on UK business - 2014
For many years we have read about the ever increasing pain that defined benefit (DB) pension schemes have piled onto employers, be it additional funding requirement…
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Blog
Reducing DB deficits costs FTSE350 37p in every £1
Our annual FTSE350 research has shown that firms pay 37p out of every £1 they spend on pension provision on reducing existing DB pension deficits.
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Blog
Switching to CPI may just have become a little easier
When the government changed statutory minimum pension increases to increases in CPI rather than RPI, many employers and trustees were flung into a flurry of activit…
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Blog
Good news for employers looking to manage DB liabilities
A note about the government response to the consultation on freedom and choice in pensions, focusing on the announcement that transfers from DB to DC schemes will n…
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Blog
Restricting DB transfers – will they or won’t they?
A note about the anticipated government response to the consultation on freedom and choice in pensions.
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Briefing
Current Issues in Pensions Financial Reporting 30 June 2014
This newsletter covers the selection of the key financial assumptions required for determining pension liabilities under UK and international accounting standards a…
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News
Barnett Waddingham report added to PPF Levy website
The PPF has uploaded the Barnett Waddingham report ‘Understanding the Impact of Change in Insolvency Risk Model’ to the Pension Protection Levy Consultation section…