Only trustees of large pension schemes tend to have dedicated resources at their disposal – perhaps they even have a pensions manager and their own staff at their disposal.
For most pension scheme trustees however the norm is outsourced secretar…
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Ireland must now consider launching a pension protection fund after the recent European Court of Justice ruling, argues Dalriada Trustees Brian Spence on the Investment and Pensions Europe website. Article available here
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The old adage is that the customer is always right. However in the real world this is not always true and frequently, through no fault of the pension member, they find out that they are not entitled to the pension that they had been told and…
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We are pleased to say that Dalriada Trustees have been shortlisted in the Professional Pensions UK Pensions Awards 2013 for Independent Trustee of the Year. The winners will be announced on Thursday May 2nd at an awards ceremony to be held at the…
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A recent case in an Employment Tribunal has now raised the prospect of an increase in pension scheme liabilities in respect of pension rights for civil partners.
The case was brought by Liberty on behalf of John Walker a member of the Innospec Pen…
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Former Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who led the war-time coalition Government during the First World War, is reputed to have said “This war, like the next war, is the war to end war”. This came to mind a couple of weeks ago when the State…
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It would appear that the Mayans were in fact pension commentators; their calculations were not exact, just close enough for actuaries. The end they foretold however was of contracting-out; not life, the universe and everything. Although, having…
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A recent decision in the High Court of Northern Ireland has highlighted once more that Pension scheme rules can quickly be overtaken by the ever changing legislative landscape and that just because the scheme rules say one thing doesn’t always mean…
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Decisions to be made; meetings to attend; advisors to review; returns to be completed; a year in the life of a Trustee is never dull but always challenging.
2012 has been no different and if anything the pace has somewhat increased.
Highlights …
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£2-3 billion is purportedly the money DB members could be losing in poor cash commutation terms according to industry commentators.
There are many question that members can consider when deciding whether to forego pension for cash. It is possibl…
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