All Eversheds Sutherland articles – Page 2
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OpinionDashboards data outsourcing contracts risk non-compliance
Eversheds Sutherland’s Lorna Doggett and Helen Tabiner detail how outsourcing data administration for pensions dashboards outside the UK is riddled with a series of compliance issues due to new legislation.
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NewsMedway Packaging scheme completes full £52mn buy-in
On the go: The Medway Packaging Pension Scheme has completed a full buy-in with Pension Insurance Corporation covering £52mn of liabilities.
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NewsEDS scheme secures £1.1bn full buy-in
On the go: The £1.5bn EDS 1994 Pension Scheme has secured a £1.1bn full buy-in with Pension Insurance Corporation.
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NewsSmiths Group scheme secures final £640mn buy-in
On the go: The £1.7bn TI Group Pension Scheme has completed a £640mn buy-in with Rothesay, covering its remaining uninsured members.
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NewsCornish pension scheme agrees £11mn buyout with L&G
On the go: The circa £11mn Cornish Mutual Assurance Company Staff Pension Scheme has agreed a buyout with Legal & General Assurance Society.
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NewsImperial Tobacco agrees £1.8bn deal, charity completes full buy-in
Risk watch: A roundup up of the latest derisking transactions, including the Imperial Tobacco Pension Fund’s £1.8bn deal with Standard Life, and the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen Retirement Benefit Scheme’s full buy-in with Legal & General.
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NewsICAEW’s pension scheme completes £50m buy-in
On the go: The £206.4m Institute of Chartered Accountants Staff Pensions Fund has completed a £50m buy-in transaction with Canada Life.
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NewsMiracle Garden Care scheme agrees £49m full buyout
On the go: The Miracle Garden Care Pension Scheme has completed a £49m buyout deal with Just Group.
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NewsKingfisher completes £900m buy in; Londis scheme winds up
Risk watch: A roundup of the latest derisking transactions, including the Kingfisher scheme’s £900m buy-in with Aviva and the Londis scheme winding up after a bulk annuity transaction.
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NewsRidgeon Group scheme completes £50m buyout with L&G
On the go: The Ridgeon Group Pension and Life Assurance Scheme has completed a £50m buyout with Legal & General. Buck Consultants advised on the deal.
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NewsHymans warns over statement timescales as DWP consultation closes
On the go: As the Department for Work and Pensions closes its consultation on simpler annual benefit statements on Tuesday, investment consultancy Hymans Robertson has called for more time to implement the changes.
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NewsGivaudan scheme completes £64m buy-in with Aviva
On the go: The Givaudan UK Pension Plan has completed a £64m buy-in transaction with Aviva, covering the pensioner liabilities for 277 members.
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NewsDC schemes to send two-page ‘simpler statements’ in 2022
The Department for Work and Pensions is consulting on regulations that would see schemes required to send simpler annual benefit statements to their members from April next year.
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NewsNortel Networks secures buyout with L&G
On the go: The circa £156.1m Nortel Networks UK Pension Plan has agreed a £105m buyout with Legal & General Assurance Society, the second transaction of this type with the insurer.
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General Motors completes £53m bulk annuity deal
On the go: General Motors’ Vauxhall Associated Companies Pension Fund has completed a £53m bulk annuity purchase with Aviva.
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NewsTPR’s criminal powers draft policy fails to repeal industry concerns
The Pensions Regulator’s draft guidance on its new criminal powers, published on Thursday, failed to allay fears about the new sanctions, since it will be able to prosecute anyone in connection with an offence and will no longer be bound by limitation periods.
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Deutsche Bank Pension Scheme completes buy-in
On the go: The £4.5bn Deutsche Bank (UK) Pension Scheme has entered into a buy-in agreement with Legal & General Retirement Institutional.
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Marie Curie scheme completes £30m buy-in
On the go: The £30.8m Marie Curie Cancer Care Pension Scheme has agreed a full-scheme bulk annuity transaction worth around £30m with Legal & General.
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TCFD reporting requirements leave too little time for compliance
On the go: Almost half of respondents to a poll carried out by Eversheds Sutherland expressed a fear that trustees will not have time to comply with new climate change reporting requirements before they are introduced.
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Ombudsman decision sets financial loss precedent
A recent Pensions Ombudsman determination has opened the floodgates for financial loss claims resulting from the mere possibility of missing out on stock market profit, due to trustees being tardy in processing transfers.