By Mike Freer at BWCI mike.freer@bwcigroup.com Guernsey’s Secondary Pensions system is edging closer to being launched. After the States debate was unexpectedly deferred for 6 months from May to November last year, a draft of the Secondary Pensions law¹ was finally debated and agreed at the end of 2022. This was followed by an… Read More »
April 5, 2023 BWCI is encouraging employers not to delay their workplace pension arrangements, after the States have confirmed the implementation date of 1 July 2024 which will result in the biggest transformation to retirement savings the island has ever seen. The States had formally approved the legislation at their November 2022 meeting but the… Read More »
By Mark Colton at BWCI mark.colton@bwcigroup.com “The sheer scale of the problem caught pension schemes off guard” The now infamous “Mini Budget” in September 2022 sparked chaos in UK financial markets. The headlines were filled with dire warnings of pension schemes becoming insolvent, yet many schemes’ funding levels have actually benefited substantially as a result of… Read More »
Business owners have hundreds of things to keep track of, so that’s why at BWCI Pension Trustees Limited (“BWCI”) we keep our pension plans straightforward and transparent. In fact, the burden on employers is much smaller than most anticipate, and the benefits to workers are often life changing. The key word in all of this… 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). After 10 years in the making, secondary pensions have been approved by our deputies at the November States meeting. In addition, the legislation has now been formally enabled from 1… Read More »