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Pensions Regulator announces changes to the DC scheme return for 2024
The Regulator has issued an online announcement about upcoming changes to its DC scheme return.
Global | Publication | April 2018
On April 17, 2018, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced at a press conference that a new negative list for foreign investment is being formulated and is expected to be published in the first half of this year. The new negative list will lift up restrictions on foreign investment in the automobile manufacturing industry within 5 years, and in the aviation and shipbuilding manufacturing sectors before the end of this year.
This entire sector will be opened by 2022, subject to the following timetable:
The 50 per cent foreign shareholding limit will be removed:
The restriction on setting up no more than two joint ventures for producing the same type of vehicles by one foreign investor will also be removed under the same timetable.
Within 2018, the foreign shareholding restrictions for the following business will be removed:
Within 2018, the requirement for Chinese parties to control the joint ventures for designing, manufacturing and repairing ships will cease.
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The Regulator has issued an online announcement about upcoming changes to its DC scheme return.
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We reported last month that the Court of Appeal had agreed with the High Court’s previous judgment that all rule amendments to contracted-out DB schemes between 1997 and 2013 require written actuarial certification. Three pensions professional bodies have now issued a joint statement on the effect of the ruling.
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