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On 1 October 2012 s.87 of the Pensions Act 2008 came into force which removes the statutory duty for employers to have a designated stakeholder pension scheme.

Over time, starting for some employers on 1 October, all employers in Great Britain will be obliged to automatically enrol eligible jobholders into a pension scheme and to pay certain minimum pension contributions.

Draft legislation to ban pensions cold-calling will be published in early 2018. The proposed ban will include texts and e-mails as well as unsolicited phone calls.

The Prudential Regulation Authority is consulting on rule amendments to increase Financial Services Compensation Scheme coverage on pension scheme buy-outs applying to individuals who have moved abroad.

As we were going to press the Attorney General’s opinion was issued in the application by Heyday seeking to overturn the retention in UK law of the default retirement age of 65.

On 1 October 2012, new workplace pensions laws came into effect which require employers in the UK to automatically enrol their employees into a pension scheme.

London-based Life Sciences and Healthcare Regulatory counsel Jacqueline Mulryne's pro bono work has been covered by numerous international outlets ...

In order to allow schemes to pay a member’s annual allowance charge directly from its assets, the Occupational Pension Schemes (Assignment, Forfeiture, Bankruptcy etc) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 are due to come in to effect from 11 August 2011.

To assist smaller employers understand their auto enrolment duties, the Regulator has launched an online toolkit.

UK pension fund trustees' environmental, social and governance (ESG) duties now include specific reporting requirements in relation to climate-related matters.

The Upper Tribunal Court has rejected an application by various Lehman companies to strike out an application by the trustees to challenge the original decision by the Pension Regulator’s Determinations Panel.

The Registered Pension Scheme (Lifetime Allowance Transitional Protection) Regulations 2011 were issued on 20 July and came into force on 11 August.

Nick White, Knowledge Counsel in the Pensions team, reviews potential pensions tax options for Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of the new Government's inaugural Budget.

For those of you who may have missed it, we recently released a podcast focusing on the impending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ...

A Guide to Future Employment Law

Fears in the UK and other EU member states that the revised IORP Directive will apply Solvency II-style measures to UK pension schemes have been allayed.

The Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) has published its seventh progress update report, which looks at the period since October 2022, and areas of focus up to October 2023.