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Pensions Radar - April 2025
Insights for In-house Counsel - Spring 2025
Our regular round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in law and practice for in-house counsel.
What's Happening in Pensions - Issue 115
What's Happening in Pensions - Issue 114
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Insights '25
A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.
Derivatives: UK Treasury indefinitely extends the clearing exemption for pension schemes
The UK Treasury has indefinitely extended the exemption from mandatory clearing for UK pension schemes using derivatives to manage investment risks that relate to the solvency of the scheme.
What's Happening in Pensions - Issue 113
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: The UK government's boost to private markets
A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.
What's Happening in Pensions - Issue 112
From Manifesto to Budget: Pension tax options
In the sixth episode of this series, Nick White, Knowledge Counsel in our Pensions team, outlines some of the pensions tax options available to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, as she prepares to deliver the new Government's first Budget.
UK Legal Update - Autumn 2024
Our round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in UK law and practice for our international stakeholders.
How can pensions harness AI?
Partner and Head of Pensions Susie Daykin and Technology and Commercial Transactions Partner James Longster discuss what AI can and can't do. How might trustees and regulators use it and approach its use by others?
Insights for In-house Counsel - Autumn 2024
Our regular round-up of recent and forthcoming developments in law and practice for in-house counsel.
Working with cancer - in conversation with Barbara Wilson
Partner Ailie Murray from our Employment team, and Senior Counsel Harriet Sayer from our Pensions team together sit down with Barbara Wilson, Founder and Director of Working With Cancer – an organisation comprised of trainers, coaches and policy advisors who are senior professionals from a wide range of industries with experience living with cancer, bringing insight to support others enduring the same.
What's Happening in Pensions - Issue 111
Virgin Media Court of Appeal decision - Q&As
The Court of Appeal has given its ruling in the Virgin Media case (see our alert). This concerned the validity of a rule amendment affecting benefits in a defined benefit contracted-out scheme which was made without obtaining the actuary's written confirmation that contracting-out requirements would still be met, as required by section 37 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993. Such confirmations were required for amendments made between 6 April 1997 and 5 April 2016. The Court of Appeal confirmed that confirmation was required for changes to future service benefits (as well as changes to past service benefits).
Regulatory challenges and opportunities in pension innovation
In this session from the recent PMI's Annual Conference (July 2024), Partner and Head of Pensions Susie Daykin, Technology & Commercial Transactions Partner James Longster and The Pensions Ombudsman's Senior Counsel David Craddock with some insightful questions from the chair, Client Director of Vidett Limited, Mike Birch, explored the regulatory challenges and opportunities surrounding the integration of AI in the pension sector. They discussed some of the potential "use cases" in the pensions space and explored the regulatory, governance and other issues that trustees should be thinking about when AI is used.
Is 'diversity of thought' diverse?
Partner Daniel Gerring and Consultant Charlotte Feld look at what is sometimes meant by "diversity of thought".