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Just before its summer recess, the Supreme Court agreed to review whether multiemployer pension funds can impose withdrawal liability based on actuarial assumptions adopted after the relevant plan year. The expected decision...more
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
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
Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DC pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings and to support the legal update item on your next...more
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
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
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
In this news update, we highlight legal developments in UK pensions over the past five weeks. This update covers: News from the Pensions Regulator (TPR) Data strategy Preventing pension scams Priorities for 2025 DC and...more
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
Many employer-sponsored defined contributions plans, including 401(k) profit sharing plans and money purchase pension plans include a vesting schedule – a period over which a plan participant earns a nonforfeitable right to...more
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
Under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA 2015”), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (“PBGC”) premiums for plan years beginning in 2025 are due one month earlier than normal. For example, for calendar year plans,...more
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
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
In a defined benefit plan, participants usually accrue a monthly benefit based on a formula that typically considers their last three years’ salary before retirement and years of service with their employer. For example, the...more
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
De nouveaux développements sur le plan réglementaire, technologique et culturel viennent façonner l’évolution du secteur des régimes de retraite et des avantages sociaux au Canada en 2024....more
New regulatory, technological and cultural developments are shaping the evolution of Canada’s pensions and benefits sector in 2024. Below are five factors impacting how pension plans and funds operate...more
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
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
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
On September 21, 2023, a federal judge in Texas granted summary judgment in, and thus dismissed, a lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General of 25 states and other interested parties challenging a final rule issued by the U.S....more
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
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
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