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Freshfields on Corporate Pensions Law 2014

Freshfields on Corporate Pensions Law 2014

Author: David Pollard; Charles Magoffin; Dawn Heath
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
ISBN: 9781780434513
Published In: February 2014
Format: Paperback , 968 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Freshfields on Corporate Pensions Law equips readers with a comprehensive and detailed exposition of corporate pension rights and obligation in the UK.

Current to the start of 2014, this book provides coverage of up-to-date legislation and case law including the proposals in the Pensions Bill 2014 on contracting-out and the Pensions Regulator’s statutory objectives, the Olympic Airlinescase on PPF eligibility and the Supreme Court decision in the Nortel case on priority of moral hazard claims against a company in insolvency.

Written in a clear and user-friendly way, Freshfields on Corporate Pensions Law 2014 looks at occupational pensions from the perspective of the employer. As such it provides “bite-sized” analysis of legal topics in over 100 separate and accessible sections. These have been gathered together by the expert pensions team from leading international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.

Expert Guidance for Trustees
As with previous editions, Freshfields on Corporate Pensions Law 2014 includes helpful sections on member-nominated trustees (MNTs), the advantage and disadvantages of a separate trustee company and Trustee companies and Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). It also includes helpful information on what directors of pension corporate trustees need to know about duties and indemnities in the Companies Act 2006 and how to pay trustees under pension schemes.

The new sections in this edition include:

Money Purchase Pension Schemes: Comparison of Trust Based (OPS) with Contract Based (PP)
Pensions Bill 2014: a new statutory objective for the Pensions Regulator
European proposals to reform the regulation of pension schemes
Reservoir Trusts and Charged Accounts
Things you may not know about trustee liability
Trustee directors: liabilities, indemnities and exonerations
The end of contracting-out in April 2016
Asset backed funding structures
Section 75: grace periods
Section 75 and relevant transfer deduction
The Kodak restructuring
Pensions issues on paying dividends
Olympic Airlines: problems with PPF entry for companies in insolvency outside the UK
Moral hazard powers are a provable debt: Nortel/Lehman
Commutation and member options: trustee duties and the role of the actuary

This annual title is essential reading for finance directors, treasurers, HR departments, pension managers, in-house counsel and trustees.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Scheme funding
Chapter 3 Debt on the employer
Chapter 4 TPR moral hazard powers and clearance
Chapter 5 Pension Protection Fund (PPF)
Chapter 6 Corporate transactions (sales purchases and corporate activity)
Chapter 7 Scheme mergers
Chapter 8 Cross-border pension schemes
Chapter 9 Restructuring and insolvency
Chapter 10 Multi-employer schemes
Chapter 11 Trustees
Chapter 12 Conflicts of interest
Chapter 13 Obligations to provide information
Chapter 14 Benefit changes
Chapter 15 Employer consultation obligations and communicating with members
Chapter 16 Age discrimination and pensions
Chapter 17 Investment issues
Chapter 18 Pensions tax
Chapter 19 Auto-enrolment

General editors David Pollard, Charles Magoffin and Dawn Heath are highly regarded experts in the field of pensions and employment law. They are all partners with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London. David Pollard is a former chairman of the Association of Pension Lawyers (APL) and was ranked joint 1st place in the Pensions World 2012 survey of top all-round pensions lawyers. He is also the author of Corporate Insolvency: Employment and Pension Rights (Bloomsbury Professional).