UK
Mayer Brown
The Finance Act 2024, which provides for the abolition of the lifetime allowance (LTA) and introduction of the new tax regime for lump sums and lump sum death benefits...
Travers Smith LLP
The Government has laid for Parliament's approval the long-awaited DB funding and investment regulations.
Travers Smith LLP
4.8 In order to resist greenwashing and other ESG-related allegations more effectively, trustees should ensure that their public statements concerning ESG matters i) are clear and unambiguous...
WTW
WTW's commentary on measures relevant to pension provision in the current government's final Spring Budget.
Forsters
Setting up and running your own business is an amazing achievement. It requires vision, creativity, motivation and stamina. On occasion, it can even bring you fame...
WTW
On 5 March 2024, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) published its consultation on the statement of strategy that defined benefit (DB) schemes will be required to prepare for their first valuation...
WTW
On 23 February 2024, the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) issued its Options for Defined Benefit Schemes consultation document...
Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong
The 2024 Corporate Governance Code was published by the Financial Reporting Council on January 22, 2024, and is the key source of corporate governance recommendations for companies...
WTW
Total rewards leaders are leveraging AI and optimizing programs for employee wellbeing, cost efficiency and talent attraction. Adapting quickly creates new opportunities...
Herbert Smith Freehills
The DWP has published an updated draft of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Funding and Investment Strategy and Amendment) Regulations 2024 (the "Regulations")...
Blaser Mills
Choosing the right living arrangement for yourself or a loved one in later years can be a significant decision, often marked by careful consideration of various options available.
Thomson Snell & Passmore
As the prospect of a general election becomes evident, it is suggested by the polls that the UK may see a Labour government returned. Labour have declared themselves the ‘party for working people'...
Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong
The general submission deadline for taking action to minimise the 2024/25 PPF levy is midnight on March 31, 2024. Schemes should note that this is Easter Sunday and the Friday before is a bank holiday...
Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong
On February 8, 2024, the PPF announced that it has partnered with Aviva, who will provide a DC discharge solution for hybrid schemes.
Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong
The State Pension Age (Compensation) Bill has been introduced in the House of Commons by Alan Brown, MP, as a Private Members' Bill.
Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong
The Pensions Ombudsman has upheld a complaint by a member trustee of a small self-administered pension scheme (SSAS) against Rowanmoor Trustees Limited (RTL).
Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong
On February 7, 2024, the Work and Pensions Committee of the House of Commons published a lengthy report submitted by the Regulator on the impact...
Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong
On February 8, 2024, the DWP announced the launch of the Small Pots Working Group.
WTW
The Government proposes to make it easier for DB scheme trustees to share surplus with employers and members and for the PPF to administer a consolidation option for DB schemes by 2026.
Burges Salmon
The judgment in the case of Newell Trustees Ltd v Newell Rubbermaid UK Services Ltd and another was handed down last week. Among the first significant pensions cases of 2024...