Investment trust meaning

ARCHIVED This Practice Note has been archived and is no longer being maintained or updated, and will not be maintained further. This timeline sets out both the regulatory activity leading up to the adoption of a legislative proposal for the regulation and the later developments relating to Regulation 1286/2014/EU on Key Information Documents (KIDs) for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) (EU PRIIPs Regulation), together with the onshored UK counterpart (Retained Regulation 1286/2014/EU, UK PRIIPs Regulation). The EU and UK PRIIPs regimes establish harmonised rules for the format and content of KIDs produced by PRIIPs manufacturers, and for providing those KIDs to retail investors in order that they can understand the principal features and risks of PRIIPs. A detailed regulatory framework has been developed to tackle the risks, gaps and inconsistencies encountered when seeking to ensure investor protection and trust in packaged retail investment products. The European Commission’s (the Commission) work on packaged investment products originated in a request from the Economic and Financial...

In this issue: Tax Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Environmental, social and governance Partnerships Financial services regulation Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Tax HMRC confirms availability of capital-raising exemption from 1.5% stamp duty and SDRT charge. HMRC has updated its Stamp Taxes on Shares Manual (STSM053100) to state that the relief from the 1.5% stamp duty and SDRT for capital-raising covers share issues made for non-cash consideration, with no consideration, or where consideration is paid directly to a different party. See: LNB News 10/04/2024 25. Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Registrar of Companies and Register of Overseas Entities (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2024, SI 2024/454. These Regulations revise the dates on which transitional provisions for changes to Registrar of Companies’ fees apply, correct typographical errors, and remove obsolete references to regulations within the Register of Overseas Entities (Delivery, Protection and Trust Services) Regulations 2022, SI 2022/870. They...

Public disclosures to compare pension schemes The government said that opening up disclosures will enable employers and workers to compare pension schemes more easily. But the Society of Pension Professionals warned the policy could also weaken pension funds’ decision-making authority. Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt outlined the disclosure programme in March 2024, alongside a push for UK pension funds to invest at least 5% of assets in unlisted British companies. In a paper dated 1 May 2024, the SPP noted that the main pension providers—covering more than 15 million UK pension savers—already publish their UK investments via Corporate Adviser magazine’s annual Master Trust & GPP report. The SPP pointed out that such disclosures are already available through that report. According to the paper, the results indicate that funds with higher UK equity weightings have typically underperformed those with minimal or no exposure to the UK market...

In this issue: Spring Statement 2025 Probate UK taxes for Private Client HMRC Manuals updates Tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance Regulatory compliance for Private Client Contentious trusts and estates Art and heritage property, landed estates and farming families International Question of the week Daily and weekly news alerts LexTalk® Private Client: a Lexis+® community New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q&As Useful information Spring Statement 2025 Spring Statement 2025—key points On Wednesday 26 March 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, presented the government’s Spring Budget. There were no fresh measures for Private Client tax advisers—disappointing for those with clients likely to be affected by the planned reforms to business property relief and agricultural property relief from April 2026. Nor was there any sign of a rethink on the proposal to levy an IHT charge on pensions on death. By contrast,...

CGT reliefs most relevant to Private Client Multiple reliefs exist to lessen or defer capital gains tax (CGT) arising on the disposals of both business and personal interests...

Source and availability Sources Trustees are granted specific statutory powers, chiefly under the Trustee Act 1925 (TA 1925) and the Trustee Act 2000 (TrA 2000), which define their authority...

The legislative framework The Pension Schemes Act 2017 The Pension Schemes Act 2017 (PSA 2017) is designed to strengthen safeguards for members of master trusts by tightening oversight of master trusts and addressing risk areas inherent in the master trust model when set beside other occupational pension schemes (such as profit-driven objectives, large cohorts of disengaged savers, and the potential jeopardy to pension pots if a master trust collapses). In summary, from 1 October 2018: master trusts must secure authorisation from the Pensions Regulator to operate as a master trust (with existing master trusts given until 31 March 2019 to submit an authorisation application, subject to any extension of the deadline granted by the Pensions Regulator). Five conditions must be met before the Pensions Regulator will grant authorisation—see: Authorisation criteria, below the Pensions Regulator has responsibility for the ongoing supervision of master trusts—see: Ongoing supervision and The Pensions Regulator’s proposed approach to supervision and enforcement, below master trusts must identify and manage ‘triggering...

This DEED is entered into on [ insert date on which this deed is executed by all parties ] Parties [ Insert name of Company ] whose registered office is at [ insert address of registered office ] and whose registered number is [ insert registered number of Company ] (the Company); and [ Insert name of Trustee ] whose registered address is at [ insert address ] [ and whose registered company number is [ insert registered company number of Trustee ] ] (the Original Trustee). Background The Company intends to establish a trust to be known as the [ insert name of EBT ] with the objective of encouraging, motivating and retaining Employees within the Group Companies by providing benefits to such Employees and their dependants. The Company has transferred to the Original Trustee the sum of £[ insert initial settlement amount ] as the initial Trust Fund. It is anticipated that the Trustees will...

Introduction Minutes capturing the meeting convened at [ place ] on [ date ] for the trustees of the [ name ] Trust, founded on [ date ] by [ name ]...

This Deed is made on [ insert date on which this deed is executed by all parties ] Parties [ Insert name of Company ], with its registered office at [ insert address of registered office ] and registered number [ insert registered number of Company ] (the Company); and [ Insert name of Trustee ], whose registered office is at [ insert address of registered office ] [ and registered number [ insert registered number of Trustee ] ] (the Original Trustee). RECITALS The Company intends to create a trust for the benefit of the employees of the Company, to be called the [ insert name ] Employee–Ownership Trust, and designed to meet the requirements of section 236J of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992. The Company has transferred to the Original Trustee the sum of £[ insert initial settlement amount ] as the initial Trust Fund...

Amendments to the International Tax Compliance Regulations 2015 (2015 regs), SI 2015/878, introduced by the International Tax Compliance (Amendment) Regulations 2025, SI 2025/740, have brought in a compulsory Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) registration obligation for certain trusts treated as ‘specified non-reporting financial institutions’. Under the 2015 regs, SI 2015/878, reg 24(1), a specified non-reporting financial institution is ‘a non-reporting financial institution which is a trust within the meaning of Section VIII(B)(1)(e) of the CRS or paragraph II(D) of Annex II to the FATCA agreement’. Set out below is a concise overview of the components of that definition. Financial institution (IEIM400610) The FATCA and CRS frameworks recognise four common categories of Financial Institution: custodial institution depository institution investment entity specified insurance company Where a private trust satisfies any Financial Institution definition, it will most commonly be treated as an Investment Entity...

The investment powers and duties of bare trustees It is sometimes unclear precisely where the investment powers and responsibilities of bare trustees begin and end. A bare trust arises when a trustee owns assets for a beneficiary who is of full age and has mental capacity. In strict terms, the trustee’s role is passive: to safeguard trust assets and pass them to the beneficiary as and when instructed. Yet, in reality, a trustee may agree to take on tasks beyond this remit, particularly if the trustee is a close relative of the beneficiary...