Pensions Breakfast Briefing
Location: Online
Our experts shared practical insights on recent challenges in the pensions space, including buy-ins and surplus management during wind-ups, emphasising that there’s rarely a one-size-fits-all solution.
Our Speaker
Ruth Bamforth
Partner
Our Speaker
Liz Graham
Partner
Our Speaker
Louise Norbury-Hall
Director
Our Speaker
Sarah Greenwell
Senior Associate
Our Speaker
Freya George
Associate
In this video, our experts discuss:
- Trips and slips in the journey to buy-out: many schemes are aiming for buy-out, and much work is needed to make schemes ‘buy-out ready’. Benefit specifications can throw up costly benefit discrepancies. Issues can surface between buy-in and buy-out. We will look at some of the pitfalls (and solutions) we have come across.
- Surpluses on winding-up: How should trustees approach the repayment of surplus? Where the proposal is to repay to the employer, what process must be followed and how should member feedback about that be dealt with? We will discuss these and other practical questions.
- Virgin Media decision: has the Government come to the rescue? Will the Verity Trust case provide help? What should trustees do next?
- Spring statement 2025: updates on the Chancellor’s statement on 26 March
