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    Access over 1,000 hours of risk management content, guidance and training, covering more than 20 risk management topics.

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    Take control of risk with confidence

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    DC in focus: Large DC Schemes Analysis 2025

    In a rapidly evolving pension landscape, our latest analysis highlights scale as an emerging theme.

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    Metal Box Pension Scheme – pension manager transitions to BW in scheme windup

    Following buyout, the Scheme needed to be confident that the winding up would be done in an effective and efficient way.

  • A young man sits in a black office chair, playing an acoustic guitar while focused on his music. A laptop is visible on the desk in a bright, modern room.

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    The Musicians' Union Pension Fund's route to full buy-in

    How we helped a pension fund achieve a full buy-in over an accelerated timescale.

  • Two women are engaged in a discussion, one smiling and pointing at an object. They are seated at a table in a well-lit, modern environment with large windows.

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    Change of administrator leads to full governance review

    An organisation outsourcing pension administration for the first time went on to undertake a full governance review.

  • A worker in safety gear gazes upward at a tall power transmission tower against a clear blue sky, reflecting focus on electrical infrastructure maintenance or inspection.

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    National Grid Electricity Group outsources pensions team

    We were appointed to provide the pension executive and management work for the £3.5bn pension schemes of National Grid Electricity Group (NGEG).

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    How a Pension Sharing Order could affect your SSAS

    We consider how the members of a SSAS’s shares of the scheme assets could change following the implementation of a Pension Sharing Order.

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    Helping the RSPCA move to a Master Trust

    BW helped define the RSPCA's most appropriate pension arrangement to deliver valued and cost effective DC benefit provision.

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    Findel Group Pension Fund

    BW's actuarial, investment and specialist bulk annuity teams have helped the Findel Group Pension Fund Trustee to achieve a full buy-in of the fund.

  • A man and woman sit closely on a sofa, reviewing documents. The room is bright and modern, featuring a plant and stylish decor in the background.

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    SSAS Repair Shop branches out: Does my SSAS need an MOT?

    In some cases, SSAS have not been thoroughly checked for over 15 years, and that can bring with it a variety of issues.

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    Tax charges for holding residential property in a SSAS or SIPP

    Holding residential property in a SSAS or a SIPP is generally not a tax efficient investment for this type of pension scheme. Tax charges for getting things wrong, …

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    Further tales from the SSAS ‘repair shop‘

    How SSAS clients can he helped with tricky problems in order to set their pension scheme on the right footing and preserve the tax privileged funds for future gener…

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