Department of Work and Pensions consultation document on the future of UK pensions provision. Includes proposals for raising retirement ages for some government employment. Links to full report, technical paper, press release and other pensions documents, as well as ordering information.

The "Pickering Report", produced for the Department of Work and Pensions and published on 11 July 2002. Full text of the committee's conclusions and recommendations.

Issue accounting standards, and recognised for that purpose under the Companies Act 1985. Formerly the Accounting Standards Committee.

Trade association for the UK's insurance industry, representing around 400 companies. Includes a section on Life and Pensions.

Summary of responses to MFR consultation.

Links to EU information on all aspects of the insurance business, including regulation.

The Faculty of Actuaries in Edinburgh and the Institute of Actuaries in London and Oxford are the two professional bodies for actuaries in the United Kingdom.

Full text of the Act that currently governs UK financial market regulation.

FSA Consultation Paper on its plan to define capital adequacy. Full text and feedback form.

Handbook that superseded most of the Insurance Companies Regulations and other delegated legislation with the coming of "N2", specified in the Financial Services Act, on 1st December 2001. Links to all sections, providing full text, maintained by the SFA.

Voluntary Code for Pension Fund Investment. Revised set of principles of investment for pension funds, and the official MHT response to the Myners review of institutional investment, giving some updates on how the recommendations of the review are being taken forward.

The directors "shall apportion the amount of such declared surplus by way of bonus among the holders of the participating policies on such principles, and by such methods, as they may from time to time determine." But what does that mean?

A professional accountancy body, operating under a Royal Charter. Career information, news, articles on issues involving accounting.

Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 944. Now incorporated into FSA Handbook.

Amends the Insurance Companies Regulations 1994. Now incorporated into FSA Handbook.

Further amending the Insurance Companies Regulations 1994. Now incorporated into FSA Handbook.

Includes parts IV (Margins of Solvency) and IX (Determination of Liabilities). Now incorporated into FSA Handbook.

Main page for Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 1612.

Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 1612, para 77, about actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of Local Government Pension Schemes.

Consultation document from Her Majesty's Treasury seeking views on the Minimum Funding Requirement applicable to most private sector defined benefit occupational pension schemes.

Commissioned by Her Majesty's Treasury, it criticised the incentives and behaviour of pension fund trustees, investment consulting firms and fund managers.

Established by the Pensions Act 1995, OPRA supervises the pension industry and employers who administer pension schemes.

Official text from the HMSO of the Act of Parliament which created the Minimum Funding Requirement and equalized the retirement ages of men and women. Full text (in HTML) divided by Sections and Subsections, as well as details of the bound copy including online purchase.

The PPIAB is the organisation that assesses and accredits brands in the long-term savings industry. Site includes a list of the brands currently accredited, and advice on how to complain.

A September 2001 publication of the Department of Work and Pensions, outlining the Department's proposals for a future UK pensions regulatory regime. Full text in pdf format (36 pages).

Full text of the regulations governing the winding up of UK pension schemes under the 1995 Pensions Act in the case of a deficiency of assets over liabilities.

Full text of the regulations restricting investments by pension schemes in the sponsoring company under the 1995 Pensions Act.

Full text of the regulations governing the Minimum Funding Requirement under the 1995 Pensions Act.

Full text of the regulations governing the winding up of UK pension schemes under the 1995 Pensions Act.

A unit of Birkbeck College, University of London, devoted to the research of the evolution of UK pensions. Details of research undertaken, virtual library of pension resources as well as general information such as research grants available and upcoming conferences.

A review of medium- and long-term retail savings in the UK, commissioned by the Treasury and published on 9 July, 2002. Full text (via links to sections) and links to relevant press notices.