'Farewell' to technical provisions, says expert

The DWP regulations ‘usher out’ technical provisions as a primary funding measure

Holly Roach
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'Farewell' to technical provisions, says expert

The Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) draft regulations concerning defined benefit (DB) de-risking “effectively usher out technical provisions”, according to Ross Trustees.

The firm bid "farewell" to technical provisions after noting the DWP's regulations remove them as the primary funding measure which trustees need to be concerned with, and instead "shift the emphas...

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