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Comment: Triumph over common sense

Professional Pensions | 26 Jan 2012 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

Things were going so well. The government said it would consider scrapping indexation for defined benefit pension schemes as part of its promise to reinvigorate occupational pensions. And then it mentioned GMP equalisation.

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Tax-transparent fund proposals to boost pensions

HM Treasury has launched a consultation on its intention to authorise tax-transparent collective investment schemes, which could cut the withholding tax paid by UK schemes.

Professional Pensions | 26 Jan 2012 | 08:00

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GMP equalisation: Time 
to sit up and take notice

Jenna Towler talks to the industry about the government’s move on guaranteed minimum pension equalisation.

Professional Pensions | 26 Jan 2012 | 08:00

OTHER ASSOCIATION OF CONSULTING ACTUARIES ARTICLES

Industry calls for short duration CPI-linked gilts

The DMO should issue CPI-linked gilts on shorter durations of ten to 20 years to match schemes’ shorter-dated CPI-linked liabilities, two of the industry’s biggest bodies say.

Professional Pensions | 20 Oct 2011 | 08:00

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Comment: Dangerous auto-enrolment ignorance is revealed

Two stories this week reach a similar, and worrying, conclusion.

Professional Pensions | 01 Sep 2011 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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Two-thirds of firms have no AE plans - ACA

Two-thirds of employers with no pension scheme say they are unlikely to auto-enrol employees into the National Employment Savings Trust or a qualifying scheme, ACA research finds.

Professional Pensions | 01 Sep 2011 | 08:00

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Revealed: The results of our exclusive GMP Equalisation poll

PP conducted an online poll asking whether the government should hold fire on proposals forcing schemes to make adjustments to benefits to compensate for the effects of unequal GMPs. Here are the results.

Professional Pensions | 26 Jul 2011 | 12:28

Poll: What should the government do on GMP Equalisation?

Many within the industry want the government to hold fire on proposals forcing schemes to make adjustments to benefits to compensate for the effects of unequal GMPs – what’s your view?

Professional Pensions | 14 Jul 2011 | 12:58

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ACA calls for ECJ test case to decide on £10bn GMP equalisation problem

EUROPE - The Association of Consulting Actuaries has urged government to seek further legal certainty on guaranteed minimum pension equalisation because of the £10bn ($16bn) cost to employers.

Global Pensions | 15 Jun 2011 | 12:21

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Early access would risk auto-enrolment reforms

Pushing ahead with early access proposals would have risked greater dependency on the state pension and left schemes and providers in a “bureaucratic tangle”, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

Professional Pensions | 28 Apr 2011 | 12:58 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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Comment: A year in, where’s the change?

The coalition’s promise to “reinvigorate occupational schemes” seems to have fallen short of the mark in the opinion of the workers at the coal face, the actuaries.

Professional Pensions | 14 Apr 2011 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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Government falls short on promise to reinvigorate schemes – ACA

The government has so far failed to meet its promise on entering office to reinvigorate occupational pension schemes, the Association of Consulting Actuaries says.

Professional Pensions | 08 Apr 2011 | 10:21 To read this article you must be a subsriber

Early access may send schemes to pot

Allowing early access to pension pots is surely detrimental to saving if it means a diminished sum at retirement.

Professional Pensions | 03 Mar 2011 | 08:00 To read this article you must be a subsriber

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