By Ryan Hardiman at BWCI ryan.hardiman@bwcigroup.com “guidance aims to bridge the gap between regulatory expectations and current practice” EIOPA¹ provided guidance on running climate change materiality assessments and using climate change scenarios in the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) process in mid-2022. However, the timing coincided with a particularly busy period for many European insurers,… Read More »
Michael McKay Michael joined the BWCI group in 2016 and was appointed a partner in 2017. He takes over from Diana Simon who has recently retired. He will continue in his role as CEO of the BWCI Group fiduciary business which focuses on the administration and trusteeship of domestic and international pension plans and will… Read More »
By Anna Gray at BWCI anna.gray@bwcigroup.com “a range of sanctions, including in the most serious cases, substantial fines and imprisonment for criminal offences.” This is a summary only. Legal advice should be sought to understand the position in relation to any specific circumstances. The new duties on employers to auto-enrol staff into a pension scheme… Read More »
By Michelle Galpin at BWCI michelle.galpin@bwcigroup.com “the excess deaths, relative to the number expected, has increased” In the previous edition of Bandwagon we highlighted the emerging trend, which was identified in the second quarter of 2022, of the increasing number of “excess deaths”, relative to those expected based on the rates of mortality experienced in 2019.… Read More »
By John Martin (Please contact John on 01481 728432 or email john.martin@bwcigroup.com if you wish to discuss this article or anything relating to secondary pensions). The States of Guernsey have recently issued subordinate legislation in relation to Secondary pensions (“called the Secondary Pensions (Guernsey and Alderney) regulations, 2023”) and Statements of Practice which supplements The… Read More »