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Pensions weekly highlights—8 April 2021

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Court of Appeal holds SIPP contract unenforceable under FSMA 2000, s 27 (Adams v Options UK Personal Pensions LLP)

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Pensions weekly highlights—1 April 2021

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SIPP manager liable for unvetted investment ‘advice’

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Retirement Annuity Contracts (RAC)—older types of personal pension schemes

Personal pension schemes—central role in private pensions sectorPersonal pension schemes, in their various forms, play a central and important role in...

Retirement schemes for executives—UURBS, FURBS and EFRBS

Just as executives tend to enjoy better salary packages than the ordinary workforce, so is it often the case that they receive better pension...

Auto-enrolment—the transitional period for DB and hybrid schemes [Archived]

ARCHIVED. This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained.As well as the option to postpone auto-enrolment, employers which operate defined...

The pre A-day pensions tax regime

The pensions tax regime under the Finance Act 2004 came into effect on 6 April 2006, otherwise known as A-day. The pre A-day regime may still be of...

Practice notes

What does ‘contracting-out’ mean for pension lawyers?

Interaction with the additional State pensionBefore 6 April 2016, there were two levels of State pension provision:•the basic State pension—this was a...

9th Nov

Practice notes

Pension attachment orders

The power to make pension attachment orders (previously referred to as earmarking orders) arises from the insertion of sections 25B–25D of the...

Produced in partnership with Rebecca Dziobon of Penningtons Manches Cooper 12th Jan

Practice notes

The Electricity Supply Pension Scheme

The Electricity Supply Pension Scheme (‘ESPS’) is a trust-based scheme established by the Electricity Council by a resolution dated 20 January 1983 as...

Produced in partnership with Gary Delderfield of Eversheds Sutherland 12th Jan

Practice notes

Pension bulk transfers—beginners’ guide

This guide is primarily aimed at trainees, newly qualified lawyers and other persons who are new to or unfamiliar with pensions law.THIS PRACTICE NOTE...

Produced in partnership with Wyn Derbyshire of gunnercooke LLP 12th Jan

Practice notes

Introduction to retained EU law

This Practice Note provides an introduction to retained EU law, which is an entirely new legal concept introduced to UK domestic law in preparation...

9th Nov

Brexit

Practice notes

Bridging pensions

Bridging pensions—backgroundBridging pensions are a form of pension provided by some (but not all) defined benefit occupational pension schemes in...

Produced in partnership with Wyn Derbyshire of gunnercooke LLP 12th Jan

Practice notes

Beddoe applications

When trustees are engaged in trust litigation, issues often arise as to how their litigation costs are to be funded. A Beddoe application is the best...

Produced in partnership with Kate Davenport QC of Outer Temple Chambers and Adele Isaacs of Bankside Chambers 12th Jan

Practice notes

How to deal with Beckmann liabilities on a business sale

THIS PRACTICE NOTE APPLIES IN RELATION TO OCCUPATIONAL PENSION SCHEMESThis Practice Note applies to business sales which are subject to the Transfer...

Produced in partnership with Ginevra Gatrell of gunnercooke LLP 12th Jan

Precedents

Execution clause—company—deed

Option 1—deed executed by a company under its common seal (model articles, where the authorised signatory is an...

9th Nov

In-house

Practice notes

How to deal with a section 75 debt—an introduction

THIS PRACTICE NOTE APPLIES IN RELATION TO DEFINED BENEFIT OCCUPATIONAL PENSION SCHEMESThis Practice Note looks at the alternative methods available to...

9th Nov

Practice notes

Personal pension schemes—disclosure requirements before 6 April 2014 [Archived]

THIS PRACTICE NOTE APPLIES TO PERSONAL PENSION SCHEMES This Practice Note looks at the disclosure requirements that were applicable to trustees (or...

9th Nov

Practice notes

Calculating pension loss in employment tribunal claims

Pension loss will generally only arise in cases where an individual has lost their job and the pension provision that went with that job. An...

Produced in partnership with Keith Bryant QC of Outer Temple Chambers. 12th Jan

Precedents

Deed of substitution

Date: [insert date](1)[Name of Former Principal Employer](2)[Names of Trustees](3)[Name of the New Principal Employer]Deed of Substitution of...

Produced in partnership with Blake Morgan LLP 12th Jan

Precedents

Month definition

Month means a calendar month; Close This is a suggested definition for the term 'month', which...

9th Nov

Practice notes

Anti-franking

The conceptIt used to be the case that contracted-out salary-related (COSR) schemes could revalue a deferred member's guaranteed minimum pension (GMP)...

Produced in partnership with Peter White 12th Jan

Precedents

The employment contract—sample pensions clauses

The following pension clauses set out the pensions information to be included in an employment contract, depending on the type of...

Produced in partnership with Wyn Derbyshire of gunnercooke LLP 12th Jan

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Charge cap on the default arrangements of DC qualifying schemes

CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) UPDATE: In light of the coronavirus pandemic, the Pensions Regulator (TPR) issued guidance stating that, until 30 June 2020, it...

9th Apr

Practice notes

Ban on active member discounts (AMDs)

With effect from 6 April 2016, active member discounts (AMDs) have been banned from 'qualifying schemes'.The provisions implementing this ban can be...

9th Apr

Practice notes

Cap on early exit charges

Since 31 March 2017, a cap applies to early exit charges in personal pension schemes and stakeholder pension schemes. This cap extended to...

9th Apr

Practice notes

Trustee duty to assess value for members on charges

CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) UPDATE: In light of the coronavirus pandemic, the Pensions Regulator (TPR) issued guidance stating that, until 30 June 2020, it...

11th Mar

Practice notes

Achieving greater transparency of costs and charges

FORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENT: In response to a previous consultation on ‘Investment Innovation and Future Consolidation: A Consultation on the...

11th Mar

Practice notes

Bans on member-borne commissions and consultancy charging

There have been concerns that member-borne commissions and consultancy charging:•have led to some members bearing charges without realising it or...

9th Mar

Q&As

If a defined contribution (DC) pension scheme is wound up and members are transferred to another DC scheme, can the receiving scheme maintain the original charges of the transferring scheme for the members transferred but keep the charges of original members the same under the Occupational Pension Schemes (Charges and Governance) Regulations 2015, SI 2015/879?

This Q&A assumes that the pension schemes concerned are defined contribution schemes.Regulation 5 of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Charges and...

15th Feb

Practice notes

The Retail Distribution Review and pensions

Application of the RDRThe Retail Distribution Review (RDR) introduced major changes to the retail investment market and applies to regulated firms in...

Produced in partnership with Leonardo Robinson 8th Jan

Q&As

Does a tiered charge structure, whereby members are subject to a single annual management charge whose rate varies depending on the value of their pots, constitute a single charge structure under regulation 5 of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Charges and Governance) Regulations 2015, SI 2015/879? Moreover, would changes to the tiered rates (or introduction of new tiers) be prohibited by regulation 5(4)?

Regulation 5 of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Charges and Governance) Regulations 2015, SI 2015/879, contains a prohibition on charge structures...

7th Dec

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Pensions weekly highlights—8 April 2021

Court of Appeal holds SIPP contract unenforceable under FSMA 2000, s 27 (Adams v Options UK Personal Pensions LLP)

Pensions weekly highlights—1 April 2021

SIPP manager liable for unvetted investment ‘advice’

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Retirement Annuity Contracts (RAC)—older types of personal pension schemes

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Auto-enrolment—the transitional period for DB and hybrid schemes [Archived]

The pre A-day pensions tax regime

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