Pensions on Air

In this monthly episode, Senior Counsel, Ed Hunnisett sits down with Karen Mumgaard, Knowledge Counsel, to discuss the key updates from our October 2025 Pensions Essentials bulletin.

They focus on the UK Government’s decision to allow CDC schemes to be set up for unconnected employers, paving the way for commercial CDC , together with a consultation on their potential use as an option for trustees to provide pensions for members on retirement.

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In this monthly episode, Senior Counsel, Ed Hunnisett sits down with Karen Mumgaard, Knowledge Counsel, to discuss the key updates from our September 2025 Pensions Essentials bulletin.

They discuss topics including:

• Provisions in the Pension Schemes Bill on dealing with Virgin Media issues
• Ombudsman determinations in relation to pre-2021 statutory transfers and trustee duties
• The Pensions Regulator’s expectations in relation to scheme administration
• A decisions on possible compensation for sending benefit statements to incorrect addresses
• Things to have on trustee to-do lists in coming months

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In our this monthly episode, Partner, Dan Schaffer sits down with Karen Mumgaard, Knowledge Counsel, to discuss the key updates from our July 2025 Pensions Essentials bulletin.

They discuss topics including:

• The Pensions Adequacy Review
• Possible changes to state pension age
• Inheritance tax on inherited pensions and death benefits

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In our this monthly episode, Senior Counsel, Charles Magoffin sits down with Karen Mumgaard, Knowledge Counsel, to discuss the key updates from our June 2025 Pensions Essentials bulletin.

They discuss topics including:

• Mega default funds
• Consolidation of small pots
• A new value for money regime
• A statutory regime for DB superfunds
• New data protection legislation
• A case on construction where a mistake had been made in scheme rules

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In our third monthly episode and extended episode, Partner, Dan Schaffer sits down with Catrin Young, Senior Knowledge Lawyer, to discuss the Pension Schemes Bill and key updates from our May 2025 Pensions Essentials bulletin.

They also discuss topics including:

• Surplus sharing provisions in the Pension Schemes Bill
• Regulator’s latest Annual Funding Statement
• Mansion House Accord
• Potential Virgin Media fix

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In our second monthly episode, Partner, Dan Schaffer sits down with Catrin Young, Senior Knowledge Lawyer, to discuss the key updates from our April 2025 Pensions Essentials bulletin.

They discuss topics including:

• The regulator's plan to increase engagement with professional trustee firms
• What they have identified as areas of concerns
• The Defined Contribution (DC) pension survey 

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In our first monthly episode where we will be discussing the main developments in the world of pensions, Partner, Dan Schaffer sits down with Catrin Young, Senior Knowledge Lawyer, to discuss the key updates from our March 2025 Pensions Essentials bulletin.

They discuss topics including:

• The Pension Schemes Bill incoming this summer and changes in surplus extraction
• First dashboard connections by end of April 2025
• Further First Tier Tribunal criticism of the Pensions Regulator on auto-enrolment penalties
• EU review of adequacy of UK data laws

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