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Case Study
Organising a pension scheme buyout – efficiently and cost-effectively
When the Alliance Trust Companies’ Pension Fund needed winding up, we used our specialist teams and strong project management to bring together every aspect of a hi…
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Providing expertise in global accounting consolidation
Our client, Tate & Lyle, is a global provider of solutions and ingredients for food, beverage and industrial markets, with over 11,500 members of pension and other …
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Securing pension scheme members in BHS buyout
We played a critical role in helping secure the pensions of 9,000 BHS staff. Our work for this client has been very much a team approach, with a number of service a…
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Timely and efficient IAS19 accounting for a company with £1.5 billion of DB obligations
Our client, P&O, has around £1.5 billion of pension liabilities on an IAS19 basis, in three separate defined benefit (DB) pension arrangements.
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A change of corporate ownership - reviewing the pension implications
We have provided actuarial and investment services to a £20m pension scheme, whose sponsoring employer is a design and manufacturing company in the aerospace indust…
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Using pension savings to avoid future tax liabilities on commercial property
Limited companies may be liable to a Corporation Tax bill when selling commercial property. Similarly, an individual may incur a Capital Gains Tax (CGT) liability o…
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Signatory requirement saves SSAS client from pensions scam
A pension scam warning about how we saved two SSAS clients £100,000 without them doing anything - because our signature was needed to action the transaction.
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Defining the benefits of DB transfers: members and families
Following the introduction of ‘Pension Freedoms’ in 2015, we examine whether members of Money Purchase schemes should choose to transfer from defined benefit occupa…
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Achieving higher returns with lower risk
We were appointed to advise a client with ~£400m of assets in 2015 and this case study sets out how we worked with the trustees and employer to ultimately reduce ri…
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An out of control deficit
We provide a regular funding and investment monitoring service to the trustees of a £40m scheme. We were asked to review the funding and investment strategies of th…