Broadstone Group, one of the UK’s leading employee benefits and pensions consulting businesses, has acquired Midlands-based Quattro Pensions to support its growth in the occupational pension schemes market. Qua...
The position as at 25 March 2021 A recent Freedom of Information request from Broadstone has revealed that independent schools continue to inform the Department for Education of their intention to exit the Teac...
As we move through the first months of 2021, now is a good time to ensure that upcoming regulatory requirements are in sight, and on plan. For thousands of trust-based schemes there is likely to be a new, poten...
Broadstone has contributed to the latest Raconteur report – Understanding Pensions 2021, distributed in The Sunday Times, which takes a look at a number of key topics facing the industry and savers in general. ...
Background – public sector pension reforms The 2011 ‘Hutton report’ (a complete structural review of public sector pensions) recommended that all unfunded public sector defined benefit pension schemes wer...
The trickiest balancing act that The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is forced to try to perform is ensuring that the three participants in the scheme funding zero-sum game are treated equitably. The interested partie...
The Pensions Regulator have recently launched a new initiative, in partnership with the Pension Scams Industry Group to help combat pension scams. They are asking Trustees and advisers to make a pledge to do al...
So, after much drama, the UK and EU finally reached agreement on Christmas Eve on the key aspects of their future trading relationship following the UK’s exit from the EU. In the absence of traditional pantomim...
I am not sure anyone could have predicted quite the year that 2020 would turn out to be. This is a personal perspective on what has happened over the past 12 months. The start of the year would have seen a numb...
