Don’t Fall Into The Surplus Trap! How Sponsors And Trustees Can Manage Issues Around Pension Scheme Surpluses

By Peter Stanley on October 23, 2023 Posted in UK Pensions

Significant market and interest rate movements over recent years have seen funding positions improve for many defined benefit pension plans across the UK, and in a lot of cases this has resulted in pension plans finding themselves with an unexpected surplus. If sponsors and trustees are not anticipating a surplus, this can lead to uncertainty … Continue Reading

The Big Reveal: Corporate Transparency and What It Means for Pension Scheme Trustees

By Daniel Colman on March 16, 2022 Posted in UK Pensions

Background In February 2022 the UK Government unveiled its long-awaited plans to improve corporate transparency and reform the company register framework, in a move widely regarded as having been accelerated (at least in part) in response to the conflict in Ukraine. In this blog, we look at how the changes could affect UK pension scheme … Continue Reading

Pensions Administration Standards Association publishes guidance on cybersecurity

By Squire Patton Boggs on June 12, 2019 Posted in UK Pensions

We have previously commented on how the cyber threat to every UK pension scheme must now be very firmly at the top of every trustee’s risk register. GDPR has only served to highlight a fundamental challenge to the cybersecurity of schemes, a challenge that seems to evolve and grow by the week. PASA has just … Continue Reading