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HL UK Pensions Law Digest 29 July 2025

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Welcome to our latest update, in which we cover:  Inheritance tax and pensions: revised policy Pensions Commission and State Pension age review Pensioner poverty: results of inquiry Pensions dashboards: clearing “data debts”...more

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UK Pensions: what’s new this week? July 21, 2025

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. Mansion House speech - The chancellor gave her second...more

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Bringing the Future Into Focus: Boosting Pension Engagement in the UK

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With the shift to defined contribution schemes in the UK, employers play an increasingly crucial role in pension engagement. Through communication, education, and support, they can empower employees to make more informed and...more

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UK Pensions: What’s new this week? July 7, 2025

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. FCA consultation on targeted support: relevance to...more

Mayer Brown

UK Reforms to the Rules on Surplus Release From DB Pension Schemes

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AT A GLANCE - The government will make release of surplus from ongoing defined benefit (DB) pension schemes easier....more

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Celebrating a Century: The enduring relevance of the Trustee Act 1925 for UK Pension Trustees

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2025 marks the centenary of the Trustee Act 1925, which received Royal Assent in Parliament on 9 April 1925. This article explores how, 100 years on, the Act continues to provide crucial guidance and protection for trustees,...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - March 31, 2025

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. Finance Act 2025 receives royal assent - The Finance Act 2025...more

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UK moves to permanently exempt UK and EEA pension schemes from the derivatives clearing obligation

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A draft of the Pension Fund Clearing Obligation Exemption (Amendment) Regulations 2025 has been published alongside an explanatory memorandum. The draft Regulations will amend the UK European Market Infrastructure Regulation...more

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The Pensions Brief: March 2025

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ISSUES AFFECTING ALL SCHEMES - PENSION SCAMS – UPDATED MEMBER LEAFLET - The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has updated its member leaflet on pension scams to remove the reference to Pension Wise....more

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UK Pensions: what's new this week - February 24, 2025

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. Financial reporting and the Virgin Media case - The...more

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The Pensions Brief: February 2025

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ISSUES AFFECTING ALL SCHEMES - PENSION SCAMS – MEMBER LEAFLET - The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has updated its member leaflet on pension scams so that it is branded from the Pension Scams Action Group rather than TPR. The...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - February 3, 2025

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. New rules on accessing DB surpluses - The Government has...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - January 20, 2025

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. Government confirms continuation of clearing exemption - ...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - November 11, 2024

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. Data breaches: New ICO resources on communications - The...more

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The Pensions Brief - July 2024

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ESG – compliance review findings - The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published the findings from its review of how trustees are complying with their wider ESG duties. The review concludes that while 99% of trustees of...more

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Pensions dashboards – staged connection timetable published

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The government has published statutory guidance setting out the staged timetable for connection to the pensions dashboards ecosystem. Although the statutory deadline for connection is 31 October 2026, schemes are required to...more

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TPR Report: Key Steps Trustees Should Take if a Cyber Security Incident Occurs

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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published a regulatory intervention report outlining how they worked with Capita following a cyber incident last year (see our legal update), and detailing the key steps trustees should take...more

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Governance fit for the 21st century – General code of practice

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It has finally arrived! After a lengthy wait, the Pensions Regulator (“TPR”) has published the general code of practice (the “Code”). It is expected to come into effect on 27 March 2024. The Code applies to “governing...more

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Your pension and AI

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With innovation on the government’s agenda and across the financial services sector, is AI set to transform how pension schemes are run? The regulatory framework for AI is still at early stages, with the UK’s ‘pro-innovation’...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - May 2023 #5

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Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions....more

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Pensions: Joint DB & DC trustee agenda update - June 2023

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Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DB and hybrid pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings, and to support the legal update item on...more

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Climate Suit Against Directors of UK’s Largest Pension Plan Heads to Appeals Court

A British appeals court will review the 2022 dismissal of a novel lawsuit accusing current and former directors of the United Kingdom’s largest private pension plan of mismanagement for, among other reasons, failing to divest...more

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Pension transfers and scams: what should trustees do?

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Pension scammers are becoming ever more sophisticated in their methods of parting scheme members from their pension funds, learning how to stay (just) on the right side of the law and to avoid breaching requirements of...more

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