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17 May 2013
FOCUS: Those responsible for pension funds and management should make use of special provisions to protect them from prosecution in relation to pensions liberation fraud.
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13 May 2013
Courts must look beyond the assets and liabilities used to prepare a company's statutory accounts when deciding whether or not a company is balance sheet insolvent, the Supreme Court has ruled.
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13 May 2013
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has criticised the Government's plans to prohibit consultancy charging in the auto-enrolment programme.
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13 May 2013
Consultancy charges are to be banned for pension schemes used in auto-enrolment, the Government has announced, in the first of a number of actions it plans to take to tackle "high and inappropriate" pension charges.
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10 May 2013
A Supreme Court ruling on the circumstances in which courts can set aside decisions made wrongly by trustees is "likely to create uncertainty" due to the subjective nature of the test, an expert has said.
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09 May 2013
A new statement from the Pensions Regulator indicates that it is taking "a more pragmatic approach" to the funding of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes by employers, an expert has said.
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08 May 2013
Fewer workers than expected have opted out of pensions schemes in which they were automatically enrolled under new legislation, according to consultants Towers Watson.
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08 May 2013
Forcing companies which operate across the UK to split their pension schemes into separate 'Scottish' and 'English' funds post-independence would be a "mammoth task" with few benefits, a pensions expert has said.
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02 May 2013
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) should do more to ensure that pension schemes that are registered with them are legitimate if it is serious about clamping down on pensions liberation, an expert has said.
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26 Apr 2013
The Irish Government could face costs "into the billions" after the EU's highest court ruled that the country had breached its obligation to guarantee the pension entitlements of workers in the event of employer insolvency.
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