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Move would affect 2,800 employees in two defined benefit plans starting in 2022. General Electric (GE) has proposed freezing the accrual of pension benefits for its UK defined benefit (DB) pension plans, which cover approximately 2,800 employees. A 60-day consultation process with plan members will begin in February, and, if implemented, the freeze would come into effect Jan. 1, 2022. The freeze would affect all members of the GE Pension Plan and the GEAPS Pension Scheme in the UK, who would be...

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) interference meant that caused 130 advice firms stopped providing defined benefit transfer advice in 2020, the regulator has reported.

<p><span>In a </span><a href="https://www.fca.org.uk/data/consumer-investments-data-2020-update">report</a><span> issued today the Financial Conduct Authority (</span><span class="nanospell-typo">FCA</span><span>) highlights the many ways in which it works to protect consumers from investment harm by stopping and disrupting potentially harmful firms and activities. The report focuses on act...

In a report issued today the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) highlights the many ways in which it works to protect consumers from investment harm by

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On January 12, 2021, the Department of Labor (the "DOL") issued three pieces of guidance detailing the DOLs view of what steps plan fiduciaries should take to locate and distribute retirement benefits to missing or nonresponsive participants ("missing participants"). The guidance is largely consistent with positions taken by DOL in investigations. The guidance provides DOLs views on what is "...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 12, 2021, the Department of Labor (the “DOL”) issued three pieces of guidance detailing the DOL’s view of what steps plan fiduciaries should take to locate and distribute retirement benefits to missing or nonresponsive participants (“missing participants”). The guidance is largely consistent with positions taken by DOL in investigations. The guidance provides DOL’s views on what is “best practices” in search...

Aggregate investment return of 11.72% wasn’t enough to counter falling interest rates. Funding for the 100 largest corporate pension plans in the US declined $50 billion last year as their aggregate funding ratio slipped to 88.2% at the end of the year from 89.8% at the end of 2019, according to consulting firm Milliman. After sharp investment declines in the first quarter, asset returns rebounded strongly during the rest of the year. That rebound helped offset the funded status deterioration...

Finance ministry hiring actuarial services to assess retirement schemes National January 12, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Finance has decided to hire actuarial services from qualified actuarial firms to assess and determine the Retirement Benefit Schemes liabilities of the federal government as on June 30th 2020. The federal government has a Defined Benefit (DB) Pension Scheme for all its civil servants. It also has a contributory provident fund scheme besides a post-retirement medical ben...

US Pension Spending Supports $1.3 Trillion in Economic Output A new report assesses the national economic impact of benefits paid by defined benefit plans to retirees. While public and private defined benefit (DB) pensions are often criticized by politicians and executives as being too expensive to support, a new report from the National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS) highlights the major impact pensions have on the US’s economic output. According to the report, private and public se...

The city might have to retroactively create DB plans for some 4,000 city workers.