Pensions Law Handbook

by CMS Pensions Team

Overview

The Pensions Law Handbook is the definitive guide to pensions law and practice in the UK.

Outlining the main responsibilities of key personnel in the operation and governance of occupational pensions, it provides guidance through the complex web of pensions-related statutes, regulations, regulatory guidance and case law.

The 16th Edition covers:

- Changes to the lifetime allowance announced in the Spring Budget 2023
- The Pension Schemes Act 2021 (including new powers for the Pensions Regulator)
- Updated chapters on winding-up and tax
- New content on master trusts and de-risking

This is an indispensable text for pensions lawyers and consultants, accountants, HR professionals and managers of pensions fund trusts.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Pensions Law online service.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526524980
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/30/2023
Edition description:	16th ed.
Pages:	904
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 9.75(h) x 1.75(d)

About the Author

The award-winning CMS Pensions Team is experienced in advising trustees, employers, consultants and insurers on all aspects of pensions law. As well as day-to-day advice, they are industry leaders in longevity hedging, buy-in, buy-out, asset-backed funding and corporate restructuring. Unlike other pensions law practices, the team also works directly on litigation. With more than 70 UK pensions lawyers, CMS has the largest UK pensions team. The team has been ranked in the top-tier of both the Pensions and Pensions Litigation categories in the Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 directories for over a decade. CMS were awarded 'European Pensions Law Firm of the Year 2023' at the European Pensions Awards and 'Pensions Lawyers of the Year 2021' at the Pensions Age Awards.

Table of Contents

Preface
1 Pension Provision in the UK
2 Management and Regulation of Occupational Pension Schemes
3 Trustees
4 State Pension Provision and Contracting Out
5 Employer Insolvency: Implications for Pension Schemes
6 Protection for Early Leavers
7 Employment Issues and Automatic Enrolment
8 Pensions and Divorce
9 Discrimination
10 Investment
11 Funding, Deficits and Surpluses
12 De-risking and Winding up
13 Amendments and Scheme Redesign
14 Governance of Defined Contribution Schemes and Master Trusts
15 Commercial Transactions
16 Pensions Dispute Resolution and Litigation
17 Taxation of Registered Schemes
Appendix

Editorial Reviews

Comprehensive is not the word for this book. To call it such is a vast understatement. Moreover, it has an excellent pedigree, being written, revised and edited by over 50 pensions lawyers plus other specialists at law firm CMS. They have particular experience in benefit redesign, scheme closures and liability reduction.” —The Law Society Gazette

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