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Death and SSASs
SSAS death benefits are explored by BW's Lisa White, who discusses taxes on future pension savings.
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Pensions News – what you may have missed this spring 2018
From CDC, to DWP, all the way to HMRC – Head of Pensions Research, Tyron Potts maps out an A – Z on everything you may have missed in pensions news this spring.
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LGPS: Changing approaches to accounting reporting
April has been a busy month for us - producing accounting reports for hundreds of participating employers in the LGPS. We report on SEDR and the change in approach …
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Decoding pension scheme benefit design
Most private sector pensions accrual in the UK is now on a DC basis. When legislators think about DB, it is only to worry about protecting past service benefits; ne…
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Returning surpluses - employer exit credits arrive in the LGPS
Changes to Regulation 64 of the LGPS Regulations 2013 will offer greater flexibility. Annemarie Allen provides some insight on what has changed and what this means …
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White paper: evolution not revolution
Following last year’s green paper, the Department for Work and Pensions published its long-anticipated white paper, ‘Protecting Defined Benefit Pension Schemes’, gi…
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Pensions white paper: looking at long-term funding objectives
The Department for Work and Pensions published its white paper on Protecting Defined Benefit Pension Schemes. Although not offering much in the way of new legislati…
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Your annual financial health check
It is a great time to take a deep breath and do our own annual financial health check. The findings of Barnett Waddingham’s fourth annual “Generation WHY?” survey d…
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FDs - time to look at reducing the risk in your pension scheme?
Now is a good time for companies with June year-ends to consider how their pension scheme liabilities will affect their balance sheet - despite recent falls in equi…
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The DB pensions white paper - a handy summary for employers
The Government published its much anticipated white paper ‘Protecting Defined Benefit Pension Schemes’ on Monday 19 March. Here we outline for employers the three m…