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Irish Pensions Authority publishes update on IORP II-related issues


By Tom Dunstan

The Pensions Authority in Ireland has published an information update on issues relating to IORP II, including clarifications on the pension benefit statement (PBS), the annual compliance statement (ACS) and the 2022 EIOPA stress test.

The authority announced it would not require a PBS to be prepared with an effective date earlier than 1 January 2023 provided that trustees/registered administrators continue to provide annual benefit statements and, for DB schemes, statements of reasonable projection to active members


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