Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 234 mm
Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 234 mm
ISBN: 978-1-84766-920-9
Verlag: Bloomsbury
This book is a guide for employers to the law relating to occupational pensions in the UK. This is an increasingly complex area driven by a combination of:
increased costs and liabilities - for example driven by increasing longevity and reduced asset returns;
changes in the law driven by UK legislation and European law; and
judicial decisions on the web of interlocking obligations in a pension scheme.
The book is written in a clear and user friendly way for use by lawyers and non-lawyers - for example, finance directors, treasurers, HR departments; pension managers, legal counsel and trustees. The book looks at occupational pensions from the perspective of the employer.
Written by the pensions team at Freshfields, a leading international law firm, the book contains "bite-sized" analysis of legal topics on pensions law. Over 80 individual chapters are gathered together in Parts dealing with:
Funding
Debt on the employer - section 75 issues
Pensions Regulator - moral hazard powers
Pension Protection Fund
Corporate transactions
Scheme mergers
Cross-border schemes
Restructuring, insolvency and pension schemes
Multi-employer schemes
Trustees
Conflicts of interest
Obligations to provide information
Benefit changes
Consultation obligations
Age discrimination and pensions
Investment issues
Pensions tax 2011 changes
The book is up to date as at the end of 2011 and includes the recent changes by the Pensions Act 2011, the Court of Appeal decision in the Nortel case (on priority of claims in an insolvency) and the Stena and Pilots decisions on funding obligations.
