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Coronavirus Update

Understandably some clients may have concerns about Covid-19 and whether this may have an impact on our ability to deliver divorce valuation reports. We are happy to say that EPS is essentially operating normally: • Our consulting actuaries have always worked from home so the new guidelines have not affected…

Posted by EPS on 23 March 2020 in General

Firefighters and Judiciary Age Discrimination Case

In December 2018 the Court of Appeal ruled the changes made to firefighters’ and judges’ pensions in 2015 were discriminatory on the grounds of age. In both cases it is the ‘transition arrangements’ between the old and new schemes that is the source of the problem. The transition arrangements were…

Posted by EPS on 05 February 2019 in General, Public Sector Pensions

January is Divorce Month

Pension sharing on divorce January is “divorce month”. Whilst this may be good news for family law practitioners, there are serious risks of getting the advice wrong and potentially losing hundreds of thousands of pounds for your client if your pension sharing on divorce advice is lacking. See this article…

Posted by EPS on 12 January 2019 in General