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A Pension Scheme Wind-up: Legitimate Act or Smash-and-Grab?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2014

S. M. Southall  and
J. D. Punter
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Extract

The last paper on the winding-up of pension schemes was presented to the Institute by Gilley in March 1972. Since that time it has justifiably been the standard work on the subject and it has only recently been withdrawn from the Institute's examination syllabus. This paper is an attempt to up-date Gilley's work and to describe a complex and practical field of actuarial operation.

Since 1972 there has been a substantial amount of pensions legislation which has inevitably changed the detailed procedures involved in a pension scheme dissolution. Nevertheless, many of the general considerations and ideas expressed in Gilley's paper are still valid today.

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Journal of the Staple Inn Actuarial Society , Volume 30 , December 1987 , pp. 1 - 66
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Copyright © Institute of Actuaries Students' Society 1987

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FURTHER READING

The following articles, publications and papers were also consulted in compiling this paper and the interested reader may wish to refer to some of them.

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