Insights

Getting ready for pensions dashboards: A checklist for trustees

1 October 2026, the mandatory deadline to connect to the pensions dashboards ecosystem, is fast approaching. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have released a staged timetable, urging you to act now and not wait until Autumn 2026.

Dividends, recovery plans and long-term funding targets

Trustees and sponsors of defined benefit pension schemes should be aware of the annual funding statement issued by the Pensions Regulator in March 2019.

DWP preaches conversion but is it a holy route out of GMP inequality?

Last month the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) issued guidance about how occupational pension schemes could use existing guaranteed minimum pension (GMP) conversion legislation to address unequal GMPs.

A practical guide to GMP equalisation – the story so far

There are some key issues relating to guaranteed minimum pensions (GMP) equalisation that trustees should be aware of.

Court gives important guidance on justifying pension provisions which are potentially discriminatory

The Court of Appeal handed down a decision on 20 December 2018 declaring the government's transitional arrangements in respect of judicial and firefighter pension schemes discriminatory.

GMP equalisation – an answer to a thirty-year-old question?

A question frequently kicked into the long grass by the pensions industry was whether guaranteed minimum pensions had to be equalised between male and female members. If so, how?

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